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The University of Huddersfield in their report 'Reversing Accidents In
UK Transport Fleets 1996-97' showed that over 25% of commercial vehicle
accidents happened when reversing. Therefore this is one of the most dangerous
and costly manoeuvres that your vehicles perform.
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about 30% of a home delivery operators' accidents involved reversing. |
| We also found that 39% of a large parcel operators' accidents involved reversing. |
| A local authority had a reversing accident rate of 65%, which cost £650,000 per annum. |
| Analysis at the depot of a food retailer revealed that 38% of its accidents involved reversing. |
| A large logistics company had a reversing accident rate of 66% at a cost of £1,320,000 per annum. |
Cost Savings
The Accident Analysis and Prevention Journal (1999) calculated the average
cost of a reversing accident (excluding personal injury and other hidden
costs) to be £469.00.
Examples of customers' analysis with our products fitted:
- A large utility company found that they were saving over £500,000 per annum with BackMinder fitted to their new vehicles
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- After careful analysis a multi-national courier company found that BackMinder paid for itself on average in 10 months when fitted to their 7.5t delivery fleet
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Legislation
The health and safety Executive (HSE) estimates that nearly 25% of all deaths involving vehicles at work occur during a reversing manoeuvre. This is an area that is becoming increasing important as the HSE and the European Community (EC) steadily increase the legislation governing vehicle safety.
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