Samenvatting
Two hundred and sixteen accidents to trucks with the permissible gross-weight of over 7 tons were analyzed. These accidents were documented by a scientific research team, directly at the scene of the accident. The injury situation of the truck passengers and the injury risk from these trucks for other traffic participants is described in this paper. A high safety standard for truck passengers is apparent, but only in collision with accident parties of lower weight categories. Resulting from this accident analysis, a number of modifications are suggested which would make trucks less dangerous to other vehicles, truck passengers, pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists. For the covering abstract of the conference, see IRRD 837684.