To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many (a) deaths (b) serious injuries and (c) minor injuries were caused to coach and bus passengers in each of the last 10 years excluding motorway accidents; and what percentage of the passengers in each category were standing. [40308]
The numbers of bus and coach passenger casualties in non-motorway accidents in Great Britain are as follows for each of the last 10 years, together with the proportion who were standing in each injury category.
Year
| Death
| Percentage standing
| Serious injuries
| Percentage standing
| Minor injuries
| Percentage standing
|
| 1986 | 22 | 36 | 757 | 31 | 8,128 | 35 |
| 1987 | 12 | 42 | 727 | 33 | 7,600 | 32 |
| 1988 | 14 | 36 | 793 | 34 | 7,996 | 32 |
| 1989 | 18 | 11 | 757 | 33 | 8,627 | 31 |
| 1990 | 16 | 19 | 682 | 31 | 8,361 | 32 |
| 1991 | 25 | 28 | 624 | 31 | 7,444 | 32 |
| 1992 | 13 | 31 | 567 | 34 | 7,718 | 30 |
| 1993 | 22 | 18 | 610 | 30 | 7,845 | 28 |
| 1994 | 19 | 16 | 703 | 29 | 8,395 | 25 |
| 1995 | 21 | 24 | 699 | 26 | 7,643 | 27 |
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many (a) deaths, (b) serious injuries and (c) minor injuries were caused to coach and bus passengers in motorway accidents in each of the last 10 years; and what percentage of the passengers in each category were standing. [40470]
| Year | Deaths | Percentage standing | Serious | Percentage standing | Minor | Percentage standing |
| 1986 | 1 | 100 | 24 | 13 | 92 | 4 |
| 1987 | 3 | 0 | 30 | 3 | 187 | 2 |
| 1988 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 101 | 5 |
| 1989 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 126 | 2 |
| 1990 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 0 | 194 | 4 |
| 1991 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 110 | 5 |
| 1992 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 114 | 6 |
| 1993 | 10 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 146 | 1 |
| 1994 | 1 | 0 | 29 | 3 | 196 | 2 |
| 1995 | 13 | 0 | 17 | 18 | 143 | 3 |