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Mr. Vaz
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list the number of traffic accidents (a) in total and (b) resulting in deaths, for each year since 1980 (i) in Leicestershire and (ii) on the distributor road network in Leicester.
Mr. Chope
The number of injury accidents, and the number of these which resulted in deaths, in Leicestershire and the A563 Leicester ring road, from 1980 to 1990, are given in the table.
| Injury accidents in Leicestershire and on the A563 Leicester ring road: By severity: 1980–1990 | ||||
| Leicestershire | A563 | |||
| Year | Fatal accidents | All injury accidents | Fatal accidents | All injury accidents |
| 1980 | 102 | 3,708 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 100 | 3,624 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 95 | 3,634 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 98 | 3,658 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 80 | 3,847 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | 91 | 3,748 | 0 | 5 |
| 1986 | 93 | 3,334 | 1 | 67 |
| 1987 | 87 | 3,651 | 1 | 56 |
| 1988 | 85 | 3,706 | 1 | 64 |
| The 1990–91 figures for the main toll bridges in England, for which accounts have been published, are as follows: | ||||
| Humber £ million | Itchen £ million | Severn £ million | Tamar £ million | |
| 1. Income (from toll) | 10·7 | 2·0 | 20·8 | 2·7 |
| 2. Cost: | ||||
| Operating expenses | 1·7 | 0·6 | 8·6 | 2·3 |
| Debt and other charges | 43·4 | 1·0 | 19·0 | 0·0 |
| Total expenditure | 45·1 | 1·6 | 27·6 | 2·3 |
| Outstanding debt at 31 March 1991 | 404·7 | 3·6 | 148·9 | — |
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