Heavy goods vehicles & buses
The Basic Fact Sheet Heavy Goods Vehicles & Buses provides accident data for 14 EU countries (EU-15 without Germany) over the period 1997-2006. The fact sheet includes several basic characteristics of fatal road accidents involving heavy goods vehicles and buses. For example: fatalities by road user type, type of road, time of day, day of week, part of year, age and sex or the nationality of vehicles.
Heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) are defined as goods vehicles of over 3,5 tons maximum permissible gross vehicle weight. Road traffic accidents involving heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) tend to be more severe than other accidents because of the great size and mass of these vehicles. Buses and coaches are included in this fact sheet because they too are normally relatively large, although minibuses are categorized as buses in some countries.
Fact: More than 5.000 people died in road traffic accidents involving HGVs in 2006 (EU-14 plus the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary Malta and Poland)
Fact: More than 1.000 people died in road traffic accidents involving Buses or Coaches in 2006. (EU-14 plus the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary Malta and Poland)
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The number of fatalities in accidents involving Heavy Goods Vehicles and Buses or Coaches, EU-14, 1997-2006
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Source: CARE Database / EC
Date of query: July 2008
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For information on heavy goods vehicles and buses, the scientific studies on the magnitude and nature of the safety problem, the contributing accident factors, and the effectiveness of countermeasures, please consult the Vehicle Safety text on the Knowledge section of the website.
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