New trucks will all have much greater visibility for the drivers, saving lives of people who walk and cycle.

Everything about trucks is different in the UK. Even the names; they are lorries or HGVs, or Heavy Goods Vehicles. In London between 2015 and 2017, according to Adrian Wills in Cycling UK, HGVs "accounted for 63 per cent of all fatal collisions involving cyclists and 25 per cent of fatal collisions involving pedestrians, despite only making up four per cent of the miles driven in the capital."

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© Mercedes EconicWhat is also different in the UK is that they actually have been doing something about the problem. Regulations were just approved that will categorize HGVs according to the level of the driver's vision, and given a rating between zero stars and five stars. In 2020 all HGVs will have to meet the minimum of one star, then three stars in 2024. Duncan Dollimore, Cycling UK Head of Campaigns, said: