Statistics made available for 2014 make alarming reading: there were 1,658 people killed, 20,676 seriously injured and 123,988 slightly injured in accidents that involved vehicles. Of these 14,043 involved light goods vehicles and 6,873 heavy goods vehicles.

When a truck is the cause of the accident, 45% of the accidents mainly occur at an intersection, following a lane departure, an overtaking manoeuvre or accident with a pedestrian.
Whilst most drivers consider bad driving the fault of others, alongside bad roads and weather conditions to be the problem. A recent report attributed 25% of road collisions were caused by the truck driver, with other factors such as weather conditions 4.4%, infrastructure conditions 5.1% or technical failures of the vehicle 5.3% playing only a minor role.
This poses a serious question to transport and operational managers responsible for sending fleet and commercial drivers out on the road: how safe are your drivers and vehicles? as most of these accidents could have been avoided.

Many reading this article will be relying on driver training programmes, others will already have some measures in place to ensure driver and vehicle safety processes are in place by setting up procedures to assess the risks and create H&S policies, clearly setting out everyone’s roles and responsibilities for work-related road safety. But you still need to ask yourself the question are you doing enough?

The safe movement of goods and services is vital for the national economy and industry as a whole. There is more that we can do to support and promote good practice in safer fleet management and occupational road safety.

The Solution

An effective way to achieve immediate success is to take advantage of location-based technologies from companies such as eDrive, to deliver safety controls to mitigate or manage out risk associated with accidents and reduce liability by introducing its TomTom telematics comprehensive range of solutions. It gives fleet and operational managers access to key information including journey recording for insurance companies, what it costs to run, how efficient and safe it operates alongside the levels of success in these areas that impacts on their bottom line.

ProVision vehicle camera systems are designed with the needs of commercial drivers in mind to increase the efficiency of your fleet and drivers safety. With its continuous recording, ProVision offers seamless integration to its TomTom telematics product range that delivers a wealth of actionable data, empowering fleet and operational managers to make informed decisions towards reducing risks alongside demonstrating duty of care and compliance with H&S Regulations.

For extra security and protection, you may want to consider adding an In-Cab display monitor. This is a popular addition to ProVision cameras, viewed by many as an important safety tool. Particularly useful in cities and built-up areas, it is effective covering blind spot areas when turning and reversing and plays an important role in avoiding incidents.

eDrive works in collaboration with transport companies to help them create and sustain a culture where management of risk is forefront on their management Agenda. It provides the tools to effectively manage your business operations and performance. Businesses choose eDrive with the security of knowing that it offers end to end solutions from advice, products and installation services to meet high standards of operational excellence, customer service and support.

To find out more about eDrive, its products and services portfolio, please contact its sales team:

UK – 0203 0260228 Ireland – 051 470100

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