Insurance claims data from many companies around the world and research undertaken at the University of Huddersfield in the UK suggests that between a quarter to a third of all reported freight transport collision accidents arise from vehicles reversing, in some cases many more. Despite this, the vast majority of such accidents go unnoticed at the government and company levels. As a result there is only limited comparative data and, until recently, very few specific reversing-based reduction interventions such as vehicle-mounted safety cameras have been implemented by vehicle operators, driver trainers or policy makers. Over 20 years ago, in 1982, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) ‘Transport Kills’ document highlighted reversing as a manoeuvre responsible for a large proportion of fatal accidents in the UK. More recently, the HSE estimated that nearly 25% of all deaths involving vehicles at work occur while vehicles are reversing. The 25% figure comes from scrutiny of HSE inspectors' accident investigation reports, and includes approximately 10-20 deaths per annum. Vehicle direction is not always recorded, and HSE does not investigate all accidents reported to it – so the figures are possibly an underestimate.


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    Title :

    Improving Reversing Safety of Commercial Vehicles


    Contributors:
    Will Murray (author)


    Publication date :

    2007



    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    Unknown




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