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was the HGV fitted with the latest safety equipment? - that meets the appropriate (industry) standards approved of by our representative organisation, the LCC?
This is only relevant if said equipment could possibly have been a factor in preventing or mitigating the crash. Remember that we want to reduce road danger at source.
had the driver been trained for driving in urban areas consistent with standards approved of by our representative organisation, the LCC?
This is important (although you have to be a bit careful with calling the LCC a 'representative organisation'--we're a charity and we try our best, but we're a 'quasi-governmental', not a governmental organisation), but again, it is perfectly possible for a crash to occur even if a driver's well-trained.
Can I just warn against thinking there are easy answers? There are not. We need better training and awareness for everybody, and that's not an easy goal to achieve.
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Oliver Schick
@skydancer,
re. your post in the Rider Down thread,
given that HGV driver training and HGV safety equipment is likely to reduce the chance of fatal collisions happening,
surely whenever there is a fatality involving an HGV, the same questions have to be asked each and every time (unless its clear from the reporting):
where the answers to this questions are contained within the thread, or linked-to from the thread, its clearer for anybody wondering the same questions as to what the answers are;