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Accidents: Yorkshire and Humberside

Volume 463: debated on Tuesday 24 July 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many (a) fatal and (b) serious travel-related accidents there were in (i) the City of York and (ii) Yorkshire and the Humber in each year since 1992. (152204)

The number of reported fatal and serious personal injury road accidents in the City of York local authority and Yorkshire and the Humber in each year since 1992 are given in the following table.

Number of accidents

City of York

Yorkshire and the Humber

Fatal

Serious

Fatal

Serious

1992

4

110

373

3,858

1993

4

84

351

3,459

1994

2

67

294

3,333

1995

3

69

313

3,396

19961

3

59

292

3,220

1997

7

111

295

3,175

1998

4

70

286

3,001

1999

8

106

285

2,922

2000

12

73

288

2,800

2001

6

108

299

2,858

2002

8

103

294

2,893

2003

8

70

296

2,808

2004

7

94

288

2,709

2005

9

71

276

2,507

2006

6

114

278

2,538

1 In April 1996 the City of York local authority became a unitary authority and increased in size.

Information relating to light railways is not available, and providing the information requested for railway and air accidents would entail disproportionate costs.