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A130: Accidents

Volume 472: debated on Wednesday 5 March 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many serious road traffic accidents there were on the A130 between Sadlers Farm, Benfleet and Waterside Farm, Canvey Island in each of the last 10 years; how many such accidents resulted in (a) injuries and (b) fatalities in each such year; and how many of these accidents were caused by vehicles travelling (i) on to and (ii) off Canvey Island. (191796)

The numbers of reported personal injury road accidents which resulted in (a) injuries (serious or slight) and (b) fatalities on the A130 between the roundabout at Sadlers Farm, Benfleet and the roundabout at Waterside Farm, Canvey Island in 1997 to 2006 are shown in the following table.

Number of accidents

(a) Accidents resulting in injuries

Serious

Slight

(b)Accidents resulting in fatalities

Total

1997

1

3

0

4

1998

1

4

0

5

1999

1

1

1

3

2000

2

0

0

2

2001

2

0

0

2

2002

1

4

0

5

2003

0

13

0

13

2004

0

3

0

3

2005

1

6

0

7

2006

0

0

0

0

Note:

Accidents are classified according to the severity of the most severely injured casualty involved in the accident.

The numbers of these accidents by direction of the vehicles are shown in the following table.

Number of accidents

N/NW from Waterside Farm

S/SE from Sadlers Farm

Both directions

Direction not known

1997

2

2

0

0

1998

3

1

1

0

1999

1

1

1

0

2000

1

0

1

0

2001

1

0

0

1

2002

3

1

0

1

2003

8

3

0

2

2004

0

2

0

1

2005

1

0

2

4

2006

0

0

0

0

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the average age was of people killed in road traffic accidents on the A130 between Sadlers Farm, Benfleet and Waterside Farm, Canvey Island in the last 10 years; and if she will make a statement. (191798)

There was only one fatality resulting from a reported personal injury road accident on the A130 between the roundabout at Sadlers Farm, Benfleet and the roundabout at Waterside Farm, Canvey Island in the last 10 years (occurring in 1999). Age information is not disclosed for single fatalities.