ND Brown has installed Sentinel’s side-scan cyclist detection system across many of its vehicles, as well as a four-camera system on larger vehicles.

With four depots across the UK, the hire company has a fleet of more than 450 vehicles, including tippers, tipper grabs, hot box vehicles and other large HGVs from 3½ to 32 tonne for a wide variety of requirements.

The vehicles are used in large cities, including London, with operations often within heavily pedestrianised or congested areas.

Mark Fernyhough, managing director at ND Brown, said: “We have always had reversing cameras installed, in all of our vehicles, as standard and these have proven extremely successful in ensuring our customers can manoeuvre safely.

“We decided to go one step further in ensuring that we are providing the ultimate safety for our clients and other road users and this is something that Sentinel was able to deliver.”

The company has committed to installing Sentinel’s cyclists detection system to all new vehicles added to its growing fleet, as well as retrofitting the system to many of the its existing vehicles. This will allow the company to continue to provide vehicles for use within the London area as they comply with the new CrossRail regulations and allow drivers to operate in congested areas without posing a threat to vulnerable cyclists, pedestrians or other road users.

Designed to detect cyclists within the blind spot of the vehicle, the intelligent system will audibly warn the driver of the hazard allowing them to take caution when manoeuvring and in particular, turning left.

The system can also warn the cyclist that the vehicle is turning, to ensure that every possible measure is taken to prevent an accident from happening.

Sentinel Systems’ four-camera system has also been specified for all of ND Brown’s larger vehicles including its 32 tonne tippers and tipper grabs, as such large vehicles can often be extremely difficult to manoeuvre safely due to a driver’s lack of awareness of their surroundings.

The system offers drivers an all-round enhanced view of outside the vehicle whilst eliminating blind spots and ultimately the likelihood of causing an accident.

The system will be installed complete with Sentinel’s Mobile DVR unit to capture evidence of such incidents as an accident or theft. 

 

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