Freight haulage sector getting safer
Date: 02 October 2007
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The freight haulage industry appears to be getting safer.
According to recent figures from the Department for Transport (DfT) there was a 39 per cent reduction in the number of people killed or seriously injured in reported personal injury accidents involving at leas tone HGV between 1996 and 2006.
This is despite the fact that, at the end of last year, there were more than 445,000 registered freight transport vehicles weighing more than 3.5 tonnes in Britain.
There were fewer accidents involving LGVs, too. The rate was down from 12,120 in 2005 to 11,336 last year.
As well as this, vans saw a fall in accident rates, with fatal crashes down from 299 in 1996 to 274 in 2006. Accidents of all types involving vans were down from 19,186 to 15,593 over the ten-year period.
Meanwhile, the number of goods vehicle operators has declined over the past decade from 118,000 in 1995/96 to 100,000 in 2005/06.
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