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Petition update, 26 September 2008

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In July 2007 in Heage, Derbyshire a little boy aged 4 was killed by a runaway trailer which hit him as he walked with his Mum along the pavement. His Mum was very seriously injured too.

The law currently does not require compulsory road-worthiness testing of trailers and does not require for a braking system on so called "small trailers" which can be just as lethal as "big" trailers.

Imagine a trailer coming away from its towing vehicle at 60mph on a motorway and imagine how many lives could be lost as a result.

We believe the government must introduce a compulsory braking system and brake-away cables to activate the brakes in event that a trailer and its towing vehicle become disattached.

A badly maintained trailer can be just as lethal as a badly maintained car or van so we believe that compulsory road worthiness testing should be carried out on all such vehicles.

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