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I attended a session of which +dancing james was the instructor.
HGVs or any large vehicles are prone to blind spots!
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@Charlie_L would say they're just 'hard to see' spots. The word 'blind' is often misunderstood; very, very few people are completely blind in the sense that they can't see anything. It's similar with vehicles, and, of course, if drivers had a second person in the cab who could watch the nearside, that lack of visibility would matter even less.
Oliver Schick
Having seen first hand what a tipper lorry can do to a pedestrian, I think part of why they are involved in seemingly a large number of fatalities, is just how easily they can kill people. There is no feedback to the driver (if they weren't looking in the right place) that anything has happened. The driver of the lorry that I witnessed, had no idea. There was no resistance, no noise or banging that would have been louder than the vehicle itself, so he carried on. Whereas a car or van would have more easily seen someone or at least heard something and stopped potentially before causing more damage.