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Roads: Accidents

Volume 464: debated on Monday 8 October 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many fatal accidents where a medical condition was a contributory factor were recorded in each of the last five years. (153750)

The number of fatal road accidents in which any participant had “illness or disability, mental or physical” as a contributory factor was 132 in 2005 and 127 in 2006.

2005 is the earliest year for which this information is available.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) how many people (a) over and (b) under the age of 25 years holding a full UK driving licence were killed in road accidents whilst driving a car in (i) Jarrow constituency, (ii) South Tyneside, (iii) the North East and (iv) England and Wales in each year since 1997; (156030)

(2) how many people (a) over and (b) under the age of 25 who did not hold a full UK driving licence were killed in a road accident while driving a car in (i) Jarrow constituency, (ii) South Tyneside, (iii) the North East and (iv) the UK in each year since 1997;

(3) how many people (a) over and (b) under the age of 25 who did not hold a full UK driving licence were injured in a road accident while driving a car in (i) Jarrow constituency, (ii) South Tyneside, (iii) the North East and (iv) the UK in each year since 1997.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many people were (a) killed and (b) injured in road accidents in (i) Jarrow constituency, (ii) South Tyneside, (iii) the North East and (iv) England and Wales in each year since 1997. (156036)

The number of killed and injured casualties resulting from reported personal injury road accidents in (i) Jarrow constituency, (ii) South Tyneside, (iii) the North East and (iv) England and Wales in each year since 1997 is shown in the table.

Number of casualties

Severity

Jarrow

South Tyneside

North East

England and Wales

1997

Killed

0

2

135

3,222

Injured

364

562

12,532

301,978

1998

Killed

1

2

121

3,036

Injured

352

548

12,189

299,720

1999

Killed

6

6

126

3,113

Injured

302

511

11,410

296,360

2000

Killed

1

3

93

3,084

Injured

324

544

11,667

296,724

2001

Killed

1

1

102

3,103

Injured

318

516

11,515

290,350

2002

Killed

2

3

126

3,127

Injured

338

530

11,580

280,229

2003

Killed

3

7

132

3,177

Injured

336

530

11,746

268,758

2004

Killed

3

5

128

2,915

Injured

311

508

11,330

259,534

2005

Killed

1

1

108

2,915

Injured

284

502

10,782

250,307

2006

Killed

1

7.

109

2,858

Injured

225

427

10,255

238,411