No More Lethal Lorries - Petition

@jontea (continued from https://www.lfgss.com/comments/16150399/):

Yeah I realise that, but the key change that needs to be made is driver mentality, lots of pressure on hgv drivers, some don't deal with it the way they should.
You could make the whole cab of glass and people would still be hurt/killed.

You're obviously right that the pressure and working conditions are a key factor, i.e. punishing schedules, working alone, and so forth. Ideally, there'd be a second person in every cab whose job it should be to watch out for riders. I'm also no fan of road haulage and for obvious reasons think most of it should be returned to rail. Finally, no 'technical' measure is ever going to be a panacea. However, improving direct vision for drivers is by common consensus the single most effective measure that can be undertaken failing improvements in the way the industry treats its drivers. It won't prevent all left-turning deaths, for example, but it'll prevent the vast majority of them, and no matter how much the pressure and working conditions might get to them, no lorry driver wants to kill someone.

I'm asking this question in the light of these two recent lorry deaths, as it doesn't seem to me that in these two cases the lorries are likely to have been of an acceptable standard. Of course, were it to turn out that they were, I'd retract my words. I'm particularly interested in whether the scheme may have been hit by COVID-19-related complications.

Planning and implementing a traffic scheme takes months or even years. Swapping a nearside lorry cab door for a see-through door is much, much easier and quicker.