The organisation has highlighted that two-thirds of work-related fatalities involve a vehicle.

It added that two-thirds of the fatalities in 2013 were the result of a vehicle collision, with trucks involved in most of the incidents (32 of the 43 vehicle collisions). In 20 of these incidents the bystander was in a car while 7 were on bicycles and 4 were on motorbikes when they had a collision with a truck. To be included as a bystander, the truck has to be considered at fault in the incident.

The research is revealed as the NRSPP develops a national road safety related benchmarking project.

The proposed benchmarking tool is to provide a user-friendly online benchmarking resource which will provide organisations with an online analysis and summary of fleet performance, road safety cultural maturity and trends over time which is repeatable and can be utilised directly for corporate reporting.

The tool is also expected to be of assistance to businesses in other countries.