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Cycle Safety Shield fitted to lorry “saved lives and fuel”, says Ealing Council (23 September 2014)

Date: 23/09/2014
Duncan Lewis, Personal Injury Solicitors, Cycle Safety Shield fitted to lorry “saved lives and fuel”, says Ealing Council

Ealing Council has announced the results of a trial in which a lorry was fitted with a sensor to detect cyclists and pedestrians.

The council found that the Cycle Safety Shield – which had been fitted to a 26-tonne lorry – had prevented 15 collisions which could have proved fatal.

The Cycle Safety Device Shield managed to detect a total of 40,000 cyclists, pedestrians and motorists during the six-month trial.

The trial ran between January and June this year – and the contractor which fitted the device to its lorry also found that £500 had been saved in fuel running costs as a result of the driver braking and accelerating more smoothly to avoid cyclists and pedestrians.

The majority of incidents involved a cyclist on the left-hand side of the lorry as it travelled straight ahead or prepared to turn left.

The City of London is now trialling the device, which is being attached to its refuse vehicles.

Transport for London (TfL) has also fitted the device to buses on route 25 and route 73.

Ealing Council’s Cabinet Member for Transport, Barry Mahfouz, said:

“We are committed to reducing lorry danger, because we know they are involved in approximately two-thirds of cyclist deaths in London.

“We are in discussions with TfL – and if their own independent results support these so far – we are keen to look at further rollout of this system across our fleet.”

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