Driving For Work

An estimated one third of road traffic collisions in Britain involve someone at work, excluding commuting journeys. The human and financial costs to families, businesses and the wider community are enormous.
For the majority of people, the most dangerous thing they do while at work is drive on the public highway (Helman et al., 2014).
The annual risk of dying in a road collision while driving for business reasons is greater than the risk of dying as a result of all other workplace accidents.
In 2016, almost 6,000 people were killed or seriously injured in road traffic collisions involving someone driving for work (RRCGB DfT, 2016).
Although vehicles over 7.5 tonnes operate in a strongly regulated environment, there remains a relatively high collision rate in this category (RRCGB, DfT, 2017).
In 2016, 61 people were killed in known fatigue-related incidents and around 8% of fatigue-related collisions involve someone driving a vehicle over 7.5 tonnes (RRCGB DFT, 2017). Due to difficulties identifying fatigue as a contributory factor, the number of people involved in fatigue related road traffic collisions is likely to be higher.
Over 50% of business drivers regularly use a phone when driving and 88% said they felt a conflict between driving for work and answering work calls (Hilsop, 2012).

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