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'Over the past three years the number
;avy lorries over 3 tons unladen — lecreased. During the same period more one million cars have come onto our s. Clearly it is not the lorry that causes ver-growing congestion." •
✓ John Silbermann (Brent Group of ipanies), chairman, Road Haulage )ciation Metropolitan and South .un area, made this point when he e at the Association's East Kent rea annual dinner in Margate last Saturday.
Moreover, said Mr Silbermann, the lorry accident rate was the lowest for any category of vehicle. In 1971 there were 203 lorry injury accidents per 100m vehicle miles. Bus and coach operators suffered 812 incidents on the same scale and motor cyclists 238. "So we are not guilty of being the injury or accident hazard on the road that the 'anti lorry brigade' would have us believe."