Last year's accident stats here

commercialmotor.com/latest-n … vs-in-2012

Small increase in truck-related casualties…including truck drivers.

I wonder if truck traffic overall is up or down.

Nope. It’s just that I started driving.

I remember talking to a copper years ago about a new speed camera that was being fitted near where I lived.
He explained that there had to be a certain number or road traffic accidents at the site to justify it.

I pointed out that it was on a straight road in a 30 zone, how many accidents can there possibly be, he said that people jumping off the railway bridge and landing on the road counted :open_mouth:

Statistics are numbers that are massaged and moulded by the deliverer to show what they want them to show