The numbers of reported personal injury road accidents on the A12 in Essex and the number of these accidents resulting in (a) death and (b) serious injury are shown in the table, for each year from 1998 to 2007.
All injury accidents Fatal accidents1 Serious accidents1 1998 181 6 26 1999 198 8 25 2000 200 5 32 2001 239 6 41 2002 231 4 45 2003 199 4 36 2004 225 4 54 2005 221 6 44 2006 169 5 36 2007 181 4 23 1 Accidents are classified according to the severity of the most severely injured casualty; some fatal accidents will also have seriously injured casualties.