To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list the number of accidents, serious injuries and deaths, involving heavy lorries on the sections of the (a) A1(M) and (b) A1 that runs through South, West and North Yorkshire during the last five years, giving the location of such accidents; and if he will show in his answer (i) the approximate time of the accident and (ii) what type of cargo the vehicle was carrying or equipped for.
Not all the requested information is available. Details of cargo are not held on the road accident report form. The table below gives the number of accidents by time of day, and the number of casualties by severity:
| Accidents involving heavy goods vehicles in south, west, and north Yorkshire A1 and A1(M) By hour of day, 1984–1988 | ||
| Hour | A1 | A1(M) |
| Beginning: | ||
| 00:00 | 5 | 0 |
| 01:00 | 7 | 0 |
| 02:00 | 6 | 0 |
| 03:00 | 1 | 1 |
| 04:00 | 7 | 0 |
| 05:00 | 11 | 1 |
| 06:00 | 14 | 4 |
Hour
| A1
| A1(M)
|
| 07:00 | 26 | 3 |
| 08:00 | 27 | 4 |
| 09:00 | 23 | 3 |
| 10:00 | 32 | 2 |
| 11:00 | 23 | 5 |
| 12:00 | 34 | 1 |
| 13:00 | 29 | 6 |
| 14:00 | 22 | 2 |
| 15:00 | 21 | 1 |
| 16:00 | 19 | 3 |
| 17:00 | 17 | 4 |
| 18:00 | 11 | 1 |
| 19:00 | 9 | 1 |
| 20:00 | 5 | 0 |
| 21:00 | 2 | 1 |
| 22:00 | 1 | 2 |
| 23:00 | 6 | 0 |
| Total | 358 | 45 |
Casualties in these accidents
| ||||
Fatal
| Serious
| Slight
| Total
| |
| A1 | 44 | 186 | 355 | 585 |
| A1(M) | 1 | 12 | 53 | 66 |
| Total | 45 | 198 | 408 | 651 |
As over 400 accidents are involved, I shall write to the hon. Member, giving details of the time of accident, the Ordnance Survey grid reference of the accident locations, and in the case of accidents near junctions, the number of the intersecting road.