Roads: Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many (a) UK licence holders and (b) foreign licence holders were involved in (i) fatal road traffic accidents, (ii) serious road traffic accidents and (iii) minor road traffic accidents in each year since 1997. (139564)

The information requested is not available.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many vehicles were involved in (a) fatal, (b) serious and (c) minor road traffic accidents in each year since 1997, broken down by number and proportion of categories of vehicle. (139575)

The number of vehicles in reported personal injury road accidents by accident severity broken down by number and proportion of vehicle type is given in the tables.

*Number of vehicles involved in reported personal injury road accidents by vehicle type and accident severity, GB: 1997 to 2005*
Number of vehicles
Accident severity	Vehicle type	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Fatal	Pedal cycle	199	167	187	141	145	141	124	144	158
	Motorcycle	570	570	617	695	673	694	783	659	620
	Car	3,979	3,714	3,634	3,516	3,654	3,728	3,773	3,520	3,465
	Bus or coach	129	136	139	136	164	125	119	121	108
	LGV	309	290	262	279	302	296	320	267	261
	HGV	572	595	617	565	588	570	533	472	520
	Other motor vehicle	63	81	83	91	74	87	86	80	62
	Other non-motor vehicle	14	11	5	6	12	4	12	10	8
	Total	5,836	5,564	5,547	5,433	5,614	5,647	5,753	5,276	5,204

Serious	Pedal cycle	3,596	3,318	3,164	2,796	2,678	2,442	2,420	2,272	2,339
	Motorcycle	6,263	6,294	6,674	7,119	7,094	7,226	7,319	6,400	6,234
	Car	44,162	41,627	39,428	38,071	37,091	35,835	33,139	30,896	28,664
	Bus or coach	1,387	1,351	1,344	1,313	1,269	1,267	1,200	1,116	1,023
	LGV	2,858	2,823	2,414	2,341	2,358	2,258	2,189	1,940	1,819
	HGV	2,615	2,482	2,468	2,468	2,322	2,122	1,923	1,670	1,648
	Other motor vehicle	599	582	664	683	515	627	477	616	381
	Other non-motor vehicle	85	62	79	82	79	74	85	80	63
	Total	61,575	58,561	56,267	54,903	53,441	51,862	48,763	45,001	42,176

Slight	Pedal cycle	21,405	19,938	20,131	18,118	16,674	14,949	14,928	14,668	14,542
	Motorcycle	18,378	18,650	19,831	21,422	22,317	21,583	21,421	19,798	19,016
	Car	290,783	292,453	286,804	288,259	281,155	275,005	263,021	257,426	249,681
	Bus or coach	9,725	10,275	10,405	10,284	10,088	9,389	9,620	9,336	8,857
	LGV	16,903	16,970	15,376	15,051	15,654	15,201	14,977	13,521	13,998
	HGV	11,198	11,449	12,106	12,161	11,903	10,788	10,717	10,374	9,952
	Other motor vehicle	2,704	2,830	3,535	3,777	2,662	3,472	2,481	4,091	2,464
	Other non-motor vehicle	312	279	318	337	340	288	250	295	254
	Total	371,466	372,980	368,678	369,607	361,018	350,816	337,506	329,568	318,856

*Percentage of vehicles involved in reported personal injury road accidents by vehicle type and severity of accident, GB:1997 to 2005*
Percentage of vehicles
Severity	Vehicle type	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Fatal	Pedal cycle	3.4	3.0	3.4	2.6	2.6	2.5	2.2	2.7	3.0
	Motorcycle	9.8	10.2	11.1	12.8	12.0	12.3	13.6	12.5	11.9
	Car	68.2	66.8	65.5	64.7	65.1	66.0	65.6	66.7	66.6
	Bus or coach	2.2	2.4	2.5	2.5	2.9	2.2	2.1	2.3	2.1
	LGV	5.3	5.2	4.7	5.1	5.4	5.2	5.6	5.1	5.0
	HGV	9.8	10.7	11.1	10.4	10.5	10.1	9.3	8.9	10.0
	Other motor vehicle	1.1	1.5	1.5	1.7	1.3	1.5	1.5	1.5	1.2
	Other non-motor vehicle	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.2
	Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

Serious	Pedal cycle	5.8	5.7	5.6	5.1	5.0	4.7	5.0	5.0	5.5
	Motorcycle	10.2	10.7	11.9	13.0	13.3	13.9	15.0	14.2	14.8
	Car	71.7	71.1	70.1	69.3	69.4	69.1	68.0	68.7	68.0
	Bus or coach	2.3	2.3	2.4	2.4	2.4	2.4	2.5	2.5	2.4
	LGV	4.6	4.8	4.3	4.3	4.4	4.4	4.5	4.3	4.3
	HGV	4.2	4.2	4.4	4.5	4.3	4.1	3.9	3.7	3.9
	Other motor vehicle	1.0	1.0	1.2	1.2	1.0	1.2	1.0	1.4	0.9
	Other non-motor vehicle	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.1
	Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

Slight	Pedal cycle	5.8	5.3	5.5	4.9	4.6	4.3	4.4	4.5	4.6
	Motorcycle	4.9	5.0	5.4	5.8	6.2	6.2	6.3	6.0	6.0
	Car	78.3	78.4	77.8	78.0	77.9	78.4	77.9	78.1	78.3
	Bus or coach	2.6	2.8	2.8	2.8	2.8	2.7	2.9	2.8	2.8
	LGV	4.6	4.5	4.2	4.1	4.3	4.3	4.4	4.1	4.4
	HGV	3.0	3.1	3.3	3.3	3.3	3.1	3.2	3.1	3.1
	Other motor vehicle	0.7	0.8	1.0	1.0	0.7	1.0	0.7	1.2	0.8
	Other non-motor vehicle	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
	Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many and what proportion of (a) fatal, (b) serious and (c) minor road traffic accidents involved a foreign-registered car in each year since 1997. (139609)

The number and percentage of reported personal injury road accidents involving at least one foreign registered car in 2005 is given in the following table.

*Reported personal injury road accidents involving at least one foreign registered car, GB: 2005*
Accident severity	Number of accidents	Percentage of all reported accidents
Fatal	15	0.5
Serious	84	0.3
Slight	730	0.4

This information is not available for years prior to 2005.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what percentage of people aged (a) 17 to 23, (b) 24 to 29, (c) 30 to 39, (d) 40 to 49, (e) 50 to 59, (f) 60 to 69, (g) 70 to 79, (h) 80 to 89 and (i) over 90 years were involved in (i) minor accidents, (ii) serious and (iii) fatal road traffic accidents in each year since 1997. (139669)

The information requested is given in the following table.

*Percentage of population involved in reported personal injury road accidents, by age and severity: GB 1997 to 2005*
Percentage of population¹
		Age
	Severity	17 to 23	24 to 29	30 to 39	40 to 49	50 to 59	60 to 69	70 to 79	80 to 89	90 and over
1997	Fatal	0.02	0.01	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.07	0.01	0.01
	Serious	0.18	0.12	0.09	0.06	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.06	0.03
	Slight	1.20	0.86	0.62	0.43	0.33	0.24	0.21	0.18	0.09

1998	Fatal	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
	Serious	0.17	0.11	0.08	0.06	0.05	0.04	0.05	0.06	0.03
	Slight	1.17	0.86	0.63	0.44	0.33	0.24	0.21	0.18	0.10

1999	Fatal	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.01	0.01
	Serious	0.15	0.10	0.08	0.06	0.05	0.04	0.04	0.05	0.03
	Slight	1.11	0.84	0.63	0.44	0.33	0.24	0.20	0.18	0.10

2000	Fatal	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.01	0.01
	Serious	0.15	0.10	0.08	0.06	0.05	0.04	0.04	0.05	0.03
	Slight	1.10	0.83	0.64	0.45	0.34	0.24	0.20	0.17	0.09

2001	Fatal	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.01	0.01
	Serious	0.15	0.10	0.08	0.06	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.05	0.03
	Slight	1.07	0.79	0.62	0.45	0.32	0.24	0.20	0.18	0.10

2002	Fatal	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.01	0.07
	Serious	0.15	0.10	0.07	0.06	0.04	0.03	0.04	0.04	0.02
	Slight	1.05	0.76	0.60	0.44	0.32	0.23	0.20	0.17	0.10

2003	Fatal	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.01	0.01
	Serious	0.14	0.09	0.07	0.05	0.04	0.03	0.04	0.04	0.02
	Slight	0.99	0.73	0.57	0.43	0.30	0.23	0.19	0.17	0.10

2004	Fatal	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.01	0.01
	Serious	0.13	0.08	0.06	0.05	0.04	0.03	0.03	0.04	0.02
	Slight	0.97	0.70	0.54	0.41	0.30	0.21	0.18	0.17	0.09

2005	Fatal	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.01	0.01
	Serious	0.12	0.07	0.06	0.05	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03
	Slight	0.94	0.68	0.52	0.40	0.29	0.20	0.17	0.16	0.09
¹ 10.00 per cent. indicates that less than 0.005 per cent. of the age group were involved in accidents of the given severity.

The percentages are estimated by dividing the total number of reported casualties in each age group by the GB population estimate for 2005. Casualties will be counted more than once if they are in more than one accident.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many (a) fatal, (b) serious and (c) minor road traffic accidents were recorded in each year since 1997. (139682)

The number of reported personal injury road accidents by severity for each year since 1997 is given in the table.

*Number of accidents by severity, GB: 1997-2005*
	Fatal	Serious	Slight	All severities
1997	3,298	36,330	200,659	240,287
1998	3,137	34,633	201,153	238,923
1999	3,138	33,267	198,643	235,048
2000	3,108	32,499	198,122	233,729
2001	3,176	31,588	194,250	229,014
2002	3,124	30,521	188,106	221,751
2003	3,247	28,913	181,870	214,030
2004	2,978	26,748	177,684	207,410
2005	2,913	25,029	170,793	198,735

Volume 460: debated on Thursday 24 May 2007