Reference: FOI-592605451
Date of request: 05/03/2024
Title of request: HGV Statistics

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Reference: FOI-592605451
Date of request: 05/03/2024
Title of request: HGV Statistics

Dear Jamie Mann,

Thank you for submitting your FOI Request. We confirm receipt of your
request and will be in touch in due course.

If we are unable to provide you with a response within 20 working days, we
will advise you of this. Please refer to the attachment which gives a
summary of your request and explains your right to ask for a review if you
are unhappy with how the Council is dealing with your request.

Yours sincerely

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Reference: FOI-592605451
Date of request: 01/03/2024
Title of request: HGV Statistics
Information request:

Please tell me whether your council has implemented the following
recommendations made by Sheriff John Beckett QC on 7/12/15 in the Fatal
Accident Inquiry into the deaths of John Kerr Sweeney, Lorraine Sweeney,
Erin Paula McQuade, Stephenie Catherine Tait, Gillian Margaret Ewing and
Jacqueline Morton:
1) Local Authorities and any other organisations which collect refuse,
when sourcing and purchasing refuse collection vehicles which are large
goods vehicles, should seek to have Advanced Emergency Braking System
(AEBS) fitted to those vehicles wherever it is reasonably practicable to
do so.
Please tell me the number of refuse collection and large goods vehicles
your council has acquired since this recommendation, and how many of these
vehicles are fitted with AEBS.
2) Local Authorities and any other organisations which collect refuse, and
which currently have large goods vehicles without AEBS but to which AEBS
could be retrofitted, should explore the possibility of retrofitting with
the respective manufacturer.
Please tell me the number of large goods and refuge vehicles that your
council has in total, and how many of these vehicles are fitted with AEBS.
Please state the reasons why any vehicles have not been fitted with AEBS.
3) Please tell me how many collisions with large goods and refuge vehicles
have occurred since the recommendations.
Please detail the nature of the collision, advise whether a human or
animal was struck, whether it resulted injury or death, and whether the
vehicle in question was fitted with AEBS

Dear Jamie Mann,

Request for Information

Thank you for your request for information dated 1 March 2024 (received by
the Council that same date) which has been passed to me for attention.
Apologies for the delay in responding. 

You have requested the following information:

Please tell me whether your council has implemented the following
recommendations made by Sheriff John Beckett QC on 7/12/15 in the Fatal
Accident Inquiry into the deaths of John Kerr Sweeney, Lorraine Sweeney,
Erin Paula McQuade, Stephenie Catherine Tait, Gillian Margaret Ewing and
Jacqueline Morton:

1) Local Authorities and any other organisations which collect refuse,
when sourcing and purchasing refuse collection vehicles which are large
goods vehicles, should seek to have Advanced Emergency Braking System
(AEBS) fitted to those vehicles wherever it is reasonably practicable to
do so.

Please tell me the number of refuse collection and large goods vehicles
your council has acquired since this recommendation, and how many of these
vehicles are fitted with AEBS.

2) Local Authorities and any other organisations which collect refuse, and
which currently have large goods vehicles without AEBS but to which AEBS
could be retrofitted, should explore the possibility of retrofitting with
the respective manufacturer.

Please tell me the number of large goods and refuge vehicles that your
council has in total, and how many of these vehicles are fitted with AEBS.
Please state the reasons why any vehicles have not been fitted with AEBS.

3) Please tell me how many collisions with large goods and refuge vehicles
have occurred since the recommendations.

Please detail the nature of the collision, advise whether a human or
animal was struck, whether it resulted injury or death, and whether the
vehicle in question was fitted with AEBS.

Please see the attached document FOI-592605451 Response. 

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If you have any queries, please contact
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Yours sincerely

Brenda Angus
FOI Assistant

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