Road Safety of Heavy Goods Vehicles and Buses in the EU is highlighted at the Traffic Safety Basic Facts 2011 recently released at the European Road Safety Observatory of the European Commission as prepared by the DACOTA project. More than 4.200 people were killed in road traffic accidents involving HGVs and more than 850 people died in road traffic accidents involving buses or coaches in the EU countries in 2009. The annual number of people killed in road traffic accidents involving HGVs, buses or coaches fell by more than 40% between 2000 and 2009.