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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Ross Lydall

'Higher parking charges for SUVs' as TfL explains how crackdown on supersize cars might work

London councils could be encouraged to impose higher parking charges on SUV “supersize” cars if they are found to cause a disproportionate number of road deaths and serious injuries, The Standard has been told.

Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan has asked Transport for London to examine real-life casualty data to establish whether sports utility vehicles are contributing to the number of road deaths in the capital remaining stuck at about 100 a year, in addition to about 3,500 serious injuries from road collisions.

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