The Freight Transport Association (FTA) has called upon the Driving Standards Agency (DSA) to ensure that all drivers are better educated about sharing the roads with lorries and other commercial vehicles.

The FTA claim that motorists are unaware of things like how much clearance to give a HGV on the road when overtaking and how much distance they need to be behind  a lorry for the driver to know they are there.

Drivers are also unaware of just how much space a lorry needs to make a manoeuvre and the fact that when they are turning left the first movement is often to pull out to the right.

In a survey of online driver risk assessments conducted by E-Training World in the last 6 months, both South and North London come out in the top five highest risk areas in the country.

The survey collated from data on more than 5,000 drivers, evenly sampled across the UK, placed South London, Wolverhampton, North London, the North East and Essex as where the highest risk fleet drivers live.

Whereas the lowest risk drivers are from Shropshire, the South West, Lancashire, the Scottish Highlands and the east coast of Scotland. The online system, to assess fleet driver risk and help employers meet their duty of care obligations, assesses attitude, knowledge, concentration and observation skills and hazard perception skills.

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Under the new 'careless driving' laws, which came into effect from 18 August 2008, motorists who kill whilst avoidably distracted at the wheel may face a prison sentence.