A milestone no one wanted to see reached: Clifton James was the 50th person to be killed whilst cycling on Britain’s roads this year. He died on Sunday, 21 June 2015. The collision involved a car. Ying Tao, who was killed less than 36 hours later at Bank in The City, was the 51st. The collision involved an HGV…
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Safety
Hampshire Police target unsafe lorries on the A34
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On February 13th 2014, Hampshire Constabulary undertook another of their road-side inspections of lorries, vans and HGVs. This time, the inspection was on the A34 south of Whitchurch, Hampshire next to the Sutton Scotney service station. The operation started at 8am and finished at 2pm. The police handed out £1700 in graduated fixed penalty notices and…
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Freight Transport Association blames victims who should be ‘giving space to HGVs’
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Karen Dee, the Freight Transport Association‘s director of policy blasted a huge air horn (figuratively of course) at today’s announcement by the Mayor of London and the UK’s Department of Transport about the improvement of the safety of HGVs. This, on a day when a woman riding her bicycle in London was killed by a person…