New rules for vehicles carrying explosives
- Title
- New rules for vehicles carrying explosives
- Genre
- News report; Parliamentary debate
- TX Date
- 23 Mar 1989
- Year of production
- 1989
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- Duration
- 00:03:09
- Description
- Peter Spencer reports on Transport Minister Peter Bottomley announcing new rules for vehicles carrying explosives following the death of a fireman at Peterborough from not knowing a van had explosives on board. Includes Commons speeches by Shadow Transport Minister Joan Ruddock asking for changes to be immediate and replies by Bottomley.
- Contributors
- Peter Spencer; Peter Bottomley; Joan Ruddock
- Keywords
- Deaths; Dangerous materials; Fires; Lorries; Safety; Fire fighters; Explosions; Explosives; Peterborough; Vehicles; By-laws
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LBC/IRN, "New rules for vehicles carrying explosives". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0002500362005 (Accessed 12 Dec 2025)