To ask the Secretary of State for Transport in how many and what proportion of road traffic accidents exceeding the speed limit was given as a contributory factor to the incident in each of the last five years; and how many of these accidents resulted in a fatality. (113737)

The information requested for 2005 has been published by the Department on its website in table 6 of the article ‘Contributory factors to road accidents’. This article can be found at the following web address:

http://www.dft.gov.uk/stellent/groups/dft_transstats/documents/downloadable/dft_transstats_612594.pdf

Copies of the article are also available in the Library of the House. Data for earlier years are not available.