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Roads: Accidents

Volume 464: debated on Wednesday 17 October 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many road traffic accidents in each of the last five years involved children; and if she will make a statement. (159262)

The number of reported personal injury road accidents involving at least one child casualty (aged 0 to 15) for each of the last five years is:

Number

2002

30,430

2003

28,264

2004

27,253

2005

24,837

2006

22,676

In 2000, the Government set a PSA target to achieve a 50 per cent. reduction in the number of children aged 0 to 15 killed or seriously injured by 2010, compared with the average for 1994-98. 3,294 children were killed or seriously injured in Great Britain in 2006, which is 52 per cent. below the 1994-98 average of 6,860. In February 2007 we issued a new child road safety strategy, which sets out further measures to improve child road safety.