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Roads: Accidents

Volume 472: debated on Wednesday 20 February 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many (a) deaths and (b) injuries occurred on roads in (i) Cornwall and (ii) England in the most recent year for which data is available, broken down by age. (187173)

The numbers of (a) deaths and (b) injuries resulting from reported personal injury road accidents in (i) Cornwall and (ii) England in 2006 by age of casualty are shown in the table.

Number of casualties

Cornwall

England

Age of casualty

Killed

Injured1

Killed

Injured1

0-4

1

21

25

2,809

5-7

0

31

12

3,212

8-11

0

53

29

6,423

12-15

1

101

68

9,650

16-19

8

438

348

29,224

20-29

8

509

624

52,791

30-39

6

375

415

40,637

40-49

10

339

340

32,290

50-59

5

271

240

20,368

60-69

3

152

166

11,229

70-79

1

108

196

6,977

80+

7

57

223

3,957

Total2

50

2,640

2,695

225,882

1 Slightly or seriously injured

2 Includes cases where age of casualty is not reported

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the accident cluster sites are in (a) the St Edmundsbury Borough Council area and (b) the Mid Suffolk District Council area. (187605)

There is no standard definition for an accident cluster site. The assessment of local accident cluster sites is a matter for the relevant local highway authorities.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many road traffic (a) accidents and (b) fatalities occurred on the A14 in Suffolk between the hours of 8pm and 8am in each year since 1997; and how many road traffic (i) accidents and (ii) fatalities occurred in Suffolk between the hours of 8pm and 8am in each year since 1997. (187612)

The numbers of reported personal injury road accidents and the resulting fatalities on the A14 in Suffolk, and in Suffolk, between the hours of 8 pm and 8 am in each year from 1997 to 2006 are given in the table.

A14 in SuffolkSuffolk

Accidents

Fatalities

Accidents

Fatalities

1997

29

3

519

15

1998

23

1

526

4

1999

26

1

518

22

2000

33

4

502

21

2001

39

5

553

18

2002

50

3

543

19

2003

36

1

566

20

2004

37

3

518

16

2005

42

2

530

19

2006

37

2

484

19