Minister calls for jack-knife report
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4 FULL REPORT on antiack-knifing trials, and on .he M I accident, involving a ;oach and jack-knifed lorry, vhich took place two weeks Lgo, have been called for by he Transport Minister, Mr 'red Mulley.
In written replies to Mr eslie Huckfield (Nuneaton) .nd Mrs Audrey Wise Coventry, South West) Mr Aulley said that he had ailed for a full report into he accident which caused le deaths of three people nd injured 13 others.
Long-term trials were :ing carried out into two pes of anti-jack-knife 'stem by the DoE with the co-operation of liritish Road Services. After the evidence of the effectiveness and reliability of the systems had been assessed he ),s,ould then be considering whether there was a case for the introduction of mandatory requirements designed to minimize or eliminate the incidence of jack-knifing.
The Minister said that in 1973 there were 447 accidents involving jackknifing but jack-knifing was not necessarily the cause of the accidents, A number of reports from the Transport and Road Research Laboratory had been published on the subject, said Mr Mulley.