Given the widely quoted statistics around the high percentage of serious injuries and fatalities among vulnerable road users caused in collisions involving HGVs, this story is particularly disturbing.
Spot checks on heavy goods vehicles on the A55 in north Wales found the majority breaking the law, say police.
A total of 35 out of 43 HGVs (80%) were found in breach of a range of laws from overloaded and defective vehicles to a driver without a valid licence.
I make that over 81%...
Full story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-21436291
What the article doesn't mention, which may be pertinent, is that the A55 is the main road used by vehicles for Holyhead ferry port. It's likely that at least some, and perhaps a majority, of the vehicles checked would have been non-UK registered. Not casting aspersions against the truckers of any particular nation, but I'm sure the rules and regulations, and their enforcement, will vary between countries.
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