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An alarming number of car accident compensation claims are made for incidents that can be classed as work-related: accidents that happen while at least one of the motorists involved was behind the wheel of a company car.
When a car accident compensation claim is made for a road safety incident of this nature it is frequently the company’s insurer who will have to pay any personal injury settlement awarded and, as such, businesses should be doing their utmost to prevent such incidents from happening in the first place.
However, figures recently released by TyreSafe reveal that an astonishing 25% of company car drivers confess to not ever having checked the depth of their tyre tread, with an equally worrying further 41% admitting they have not done so within the past six months.
Around 10% of all road traffic crashes are caused by vehicle faults or defects, so the need for greater inspection of tyre tread depth is clear: it has the potential to save lives.
RoadSafe reports that 1,100 people die each year in the UK in work-related car crashes with a further 118,000 suffering personal injury, so there can be no room for complacency.
Stuart Jackson, chairman of TyreSafe, comments, "As part of their health and safety obligations, companies should make sure that drivers understand their own individual responsibility towards tyre checks.
"Company car drivers typically cover around 20,000 miles per year, almost double that of private motorists so it is particularly important that they pay attention to their tyres.”
Jackson offers the following advice, “Our 20p lifesaver is a really quick and simple way of seeing if your tyres have enough tread to be safe and legal. By performing these checks just once a month, we believe the number of work-related accidents and cost to UK businesses can be dramatically reduced."
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