Large Goods Vehicles: Accidents

(asked on 23rd January 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Sugg on 21 January (HL1626), what factors are included in coming to the conclusion that a serious casualty involving a heavy goods vehicle costs £180,000.


Answered by
Baroness Sugg Portrait
Baroness Sugg
This question was answered on 4th February 2019

The Department for Transport’s published Transport Analysis Guidance includes estimates of the cost of a serious casualty. The factors included are human costs including pain, grief and suffering; loss of output due to injury including earnings and non-wage payments; and the cost of ambulance and hospital treatment.

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