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December 31, 2006

AT-WORK DRIVERS IN UK ARE LARGE SHARE OF CRASH DEATHS

Newly reported data from British police records reportedly have revealed that a quarter of deaths on British roads involve at-work drivers, with 16 people dying and 117 seriously injured every week.

“These figures demonstrate how important it is that, firstly, the Government takes corporate responsibility for at-work driving seriously and, secondly, all employers take the life-saving steps of educating employees on safe driving and effectively managing their road risk,” a spokesman for the activist group Brake said. He called for all fatal and serious injury crashes involving someone driving for work to be investigated by the Government’s Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and for companies to be required by the HSE to report all at-work road crashes.

Posted by MVHAP at December 31, 2006 11:11 AM