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Will, you're right there does need to be change and serious questions asked of the haulege firm who employed the driver. The H&SE should be all over these cases - they would be if the lorry hit someone on a building site but 'cos it's out on the open road it somehow is deemed less serious (when in fact it's worse, imo) I also agree that change can and should happen, there just needs to be plenty of loud voices on it.
As a start, has everyone signed Ufrasia's MEP motion to force safe lorry design to be adopted, over here?
Incidentally, I'm sure there must be some kind of legal precedent that could be set here in Catriona's case by pursuing the company that employed this awful driver. Would this have to come from the family as 'victims'? I'm no expert, am sure Road Peace et al with have more on this? Am sure the company are panicking and checking their HR and references files as we speak.