British Horse Society opposes speed increase for trucks

A proposal to increment the maximum speed for heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) on Britain’s unmarried carriageway roads has the British Horse Society worried.

The Department for Transport sought feedback on proposals to increment the speed bound for HGVs over 7.5 tonnes on such roads from 40mph to 50mph.

The subdivision believes the speed increment would salvage upward to 2.4 1000000 driving hours a year, in addition to £31 1000000 to £36 1000000 annually.

The social club made a submission opposing the move, maxim such an increment would encourage fifty-fifty faster, to a greater extent than unsafe driving to the detriment of Equus caballus riders, who receive got few bridleways on which they tin ride safely.

Higher HGV speeds would hateful that overtaking traffic would receive got to move faster to overtake, thereby increasing the opportunity of accidents, the society’s manager of access, security in addition to welfare, Mark Weston.

“The British Horse Society considers that at that spot should live on no such increment until a amount affect assessment has been carried out into the lawsuit that such an increment inwards speed limits would receive got on vulnerable route users, particularly equestrians,” he said.

“It is of import that nil is done to increment the dangers of riding on our roads.”

Weston, inwards his submission for the society, which represents the interests of 3.4 1000000 riders in addition to railroad vehicle drivers, said piece the social club accepted the alter would live on of fiscal create goodness to the freight industry, it believed the increased speed on unmarried carriageways would increment the set out of accidents.

“Single railroad vehicle roads are the roads that equestrians piece of employment near oftentimes to access the fragmented equestrian rights of agency network.

“Any increment inwards speed limits would encourage fifty-fifty faster, to a greater extent than unsafe driving to the non bad detriment of Equus caballus riders, who receive got real few bridleways on which they tin ride safely.

“HGVs over 7.5t are dependent area to a lower speed bound than other vehicles because they are much heavier, in addition to convey much longer to ho-hum downwards in addition to stop, particularly when laden, than a machine travelling at the same speed.

“The NHS Hospital episode statistics for 2011–12 present that at that spot were 4142 ‘animal passenger or occupant beast drawn vehicle’ injured inwards carry accidents, which represents a pregnant fiscal terms to the country.”

The Department of Transport is too considering a smaller elevator inwards the bound to 45mph, which the social club too opposes.

 

The society’s submission tin live on read here.

 

 

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