Commercial transport
Crashes in which commercial vehicles are involved often have serious consequences because most of the casualties are crash opponents of heavy vehicles. Crashes are caused by unsafe traffic behaviour of the professional driver, as well as by other road users insufficiently taking into account the characteristic driving behaviour of heavy vehicles. For example, lorry drivers have the problem of the 'blind spot' and delivery van drivers have a more limited rear view than car drivers.
The proportion of commercial vehicles in traffic is growing. During the last decade the number of vans has doubled in the
For more details: Fact sheet Lorries and vans (pdf)