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Mr. Boyes
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many deaths and injuries due to road accidents there have been in Northern Ireland since 1969.
Mr. Peter Bottomley
The figures are 5,421 and 171,998 respectively to the end of 1989. The detail was as follows:
| Year | Killed | Injured |
| 1969 | 257 | 7,124 |
| 1970 | 272 | 7,902 |
| 1971 | 304 | 7,658 |
| 1972 | 372 | 8,025 |
| 1973 | 335 | 7,662 |
| 1974 | 316 | 7,188 |
| 1975 | 313 | 7,340 |
| 1976 | 300 | 7,319 |
| 1977 | 355 | 7,849 |
| 1978 | 288 | 8,080 |
| 1979 | 293 | 7,628 |
| 1980 | 229 | 7,035 |
| 1981 | 223 | 7,557 |
| 1982 | 216 | 7,923 |
| 1983 | 173 | 7,540 |
| 1984 | 189 | 8,561 |
| 1985 | 177 | 8,460 |
| 1986 | 236 | 9,206 |
| 1987 | 214 | 9,722 |
| 1988 | 178 | 10,789 |
| 1989 | 181 | 11,430 |
| Total | 5,421 | 171,998 |