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<p>The Government is committed to improving road safety, and ensuring the compliance
of vehicles with safety regulations is important to reducing collisions and casualties.</p><p>The
condition of tyres is checked at the annual roadworthiness inspection and if they
do not meet the standards the vehicle will fail. Advisory notices are issued by the
Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency’s assessors as part of a heavy vehicle annual
test, and by MOT testers as to items the driver should monitor.</p><p>The Department
for Transport will consult on requirements for a maximum age for tyres on heavy goods
vehicles, buses, coaches and minibuses, and how to enforce these new requirements
will be considered as part of this process.</p><p>In September 2017, a heavy goods
vehicle travelling on the M5 suffered a tyre blow-out and crossed the central reservation
and collided with oncoming traffic. At the recent Coroner’s inquest independent experts
testified that the age of the tyre was a factor. Their analysis fits with the Department’s
own emerging body of evidence.</p>
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