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Press Releases NEWS RELEASE 19-10-2004
Impatient Car Drivers Ignorant of Lorry Speed Laws
MOTORISTS are putting lives at risk by acting in an ?aggressive and intolerant? way towards lorry drivers who are simply sticking to speed limits.
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The warning comes from Bedfordshire Police who believe many motorists do not appreciate heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) can only travel at 40mph on single carriageway roads, 50mph on dual carriageways and 56mph on motorways.
Casualty reduction officer PC Richard Bratton says there are increasing complaints about dangerous overtaking, with motorists hooting and flashing lights at lorry drivers before cutting in front of them. Some motorists habitually tailgate trucks meaning drivers - whose speed is constantly monitored by a mandatory tachograph - cannot see them in their mirrors when manoeuvring vehicles weighing up to 40 tonnes.
Often it means car drivers do not notice brake or indicator lights ? and it is common to see a motorist cutting down the nearside of a lorry they buttume is turning right, but is actually creating space to turn left.
PC Bratton spoke out after a series of in-depth talks with transport chiefs at a company that sets rigorous standards on driver training, the ASDA distribution Centre at Marsh Leys off the A421 in Kempston.
ASDA?s vehicles travel 24 hours a day throughout East Anglia and drivers are taught to comply with the speed limits in the interests of road safety, fuel economy and other running costs.
PC Bratton said: ?The reality is not all lorry drivers are perfect and some operators are less professional than others.
?However, we do want car drivers to show a little patience and ask themselves how their driving would measure up if they were subject to the same sort of scrutiny as drivers from companies such as ASDA.
?Those car drivers who act in an aggressive, intolerant and often dangerous way should be aware they could receive penalty points or even lose their licence. Worse still, their actions could result in someone being end or injured.?
ASDA?s distribution manager, Jim Wright, said in Bedfordshire drivers encounter problems on roads like the A421 from the M1 to Kempston, the A6 out of Luton and past Silsoe and Clophill, the A1 at Sandy and Biggleswade and the A5 through Dunstable, Hockliffe and Heath and Reach.
He said: ?We have more than 200 drivers and they frequently see the end results of aggressive and inconsiderate behaviour. Often it is a quite innocent road user who has suffered.
?We have telephone numbers on the back of our vehicles giving other road users the opportunity to call and report any problems experienced with our vehicles. Ironically, we actually get complaints our drivers are travelling too slowly.?
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