It would be unfair to not acknowledge the progress that truckmakers and other heavy duty vehicle manufacturers have made over the last 15 years. In the EU, for example, the annual number of people killed in road accidents involving heavy goods vehicles (HGVs), buses and coaches fell by 40% between 2007 and 2016.
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