According to the BBC Foreign lorries 'threaten lives'

BBC:
Foreign lorry drivers are putting lives at risk by overworking, using vehicles with serious faults and overloading their trucks, a police chief has said.
Chief Superintendent Geraint Anwyl told BBC One's Real Story that EU expansion had made the situation worse.
Penalties against the offending haulage companies were not tough enough because of the huge profits available, he said.
One Polish driver told the show he drove in the UK despite not understanding any British road signs.
About 400 people a year are killed in accidents involving lorries in the UK. On a typical day there are 12,000 foreign lorries and 95,000 British ones on the country's roads, according to the Department of Transport.

The programme spoke to Jean Dickins, of Hungerford, who was widowed when her husband was killed by a Czech lorry driver going down the wrong side of the road.

Ellen Clarkson's two children Laura, aged 13 and Robert, aged 9, were killed in a pile-up on the M11 in Kent after a collision with a German driver who had been working excessive hours.

Real Story: Lethal Lorries is broadcast on BBC One at 1930BST on Wednesday 25th October 2006

I suppose we had better listen to it - since in this report BBC have only managed to cite 2 examples of fatal accidents involving foreign drivers nor do they give any figures for accidents comparing British to Foreign drivers. Since there are 8 times as many British lorries on the road than foreign lorries I would expect the figures to be higher on the British side.