FOI Request - HGV Statistics

Request 101003518146

Please tell me whether your council has implemented the following recommendations made by Sheriff John Beckett QC on 7/12/15 in the Fatal Accident Inquiry into the deaths of John Kerr Sweeney, Lorraine Sweeney, Erin Paula McQuade, Stephenie Catherine Tait, Gillian Margaret Ewing and Jacqueline Morton:

1. Local Authorities and any other organisations which collect refuse, when sourcing and purchasing refuse collection vehicles which are large goods vehicles, should seek to have Advanced Emergency Braking System (AEBS) fitted to those vehicles wherever it is reasonably practicable to do so.

a) Please tell me the number of refuse collection and large goods vehicles your council has acquired since this recommendation, and b) how many of these vehicles are fitted with AEBS.

2. Local Authorities and any other organisations which collect refuse, and which currently have large goods vehicles without AEBS but to which AEBS could be retrofitted, should explore the possibility of retrofitting with the respective manufacturer.

Please tell me a) the number of large goods and refuge vehicles that your council has in total, and b) how many of these vehicles are fitted with AEBS. c) Please state the reasons why any vehicles have not been fitted with AEBS.

3. Please tell me how many collisions with large goods and refuge vehicles have occurred since the recommendations.

Please detail the nature of the collision, advise whether a human or animal was struck, whether it resulted injury or death, and whether the vehicle in question was fitted with AEBS.

Response 22-03-2024

1.a)70

b)52

2.a) 88

b) 52

c) - Either Construction spec vehicles including  gritters or/and  older vehicles not yet replaced. In relation to older vehicles that do not fall into the construction category, manufacturers do not support fitting aftermarket AEBS systems to their complex wiring & braking systems.

3. Please find the information requested here.