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.

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