Inaccurate claims undermine efforts to cut cycle casualties

Jack Semple, Director of policy, Road Haulage Association, Weybridge, Surrey KT13
18 October 2013
 

Sustrans apparently mis-understands the DfT’s HGV/cyclist accident statistics, on which you reported (‘Night-time deliveries urged to cut HGV-cycle accident risk’ LTT 4 Oct). The extent of HGV involvement is nothing like the “nearly half of all cyclists’ deaths” asserted by Sustrans in its press release responding to the DfT casualties statistics for 2012. These show that of 118 reported cycle deaths in Britain, 23 involved HGVs. That is less than one fifth....

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