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Car Accidents (Young Drivers)

Volume 299: debated on Thursday 31 July 1997

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To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions how many car accidents involved drivers between 17 and 21 years of age in the last year for which figures are available; how many of these resulted in (a) personal injury and (b) death; and in how many of these accidents the driver was alone. [11790]

In 1996, there were 41,989 injury accidents involving car drivers between 17 and 21 years of age in which there were 718 fatalities and 66,072 casualties. It is not possible to distinguish from reported accident data whether a driver was alone.