Road Safety of Heavy Goods Vehicles and Buses in the EU is highlighted at the Traffic Safety Basic Facts 2012 available at the Road Safety Knowledge System of the DACOTA project within the framework of the European Road Safety Observatory of the European Commission. More than 4.800 people were killed in road traffic accidents involving HGVs and more than 800 people died in road traffic accidents involving buses or coaches in the EU countries in 2010. The annual number of people killed in road traffic accidents involving HGVs, buses or coaches fell by more than 40% between 2001 and 2010.