Roads: Accidents

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many road deaths there were in (a) London and (b) the London borough of Hillingdon in each of the last three years for which records are available; how many of those killed were (i) drivers, (ii) vehicle passengers and (iii) pedestrians; how many such deaths occurred in 30 miles per hour zones; and how many were attributable to excess speed. (281829)

The information requested is given in the following tables. Information on contributory factors is not available below Government Office Region level since the number of accidents is small and therefore it may be possible to identify individuals, so fatalities involving excess speed are not shown for Hillingdon.

*Road accident fatalities in London and in the London borough of Hillingdon: 2006-08*
Number of fatalities
		2006	2007	2008
Region	Casualty type	All roads	30 mph roads	All roads	30 mph roads	All roads	30 mph roads
London	Driver or rider	104	71	85	65	93	68
	Passenger	27	15	28	25	17	11
	Pedestrian	100	80	109	102	95	86
	All casualties	231	166	222	192	205	165

London borough of Hillingdon¹	Driver or rider	3	2	6	3	7	6
	Passenger	1	0	2	1	0	0
	Pedestrian	2	1	1	0	6	6
	All casualties	6	3	9	4	13	12
¹ Excluding Heathrow airport.

*Fatalities in London in accidents where excess speed was reported*¹*: 2006-08*
Number of fatalities
	2006	2007	2008
Casualty type	All roads	30 mph roads	All roads	30 mph roads	All roads	30 mph roads
Driver or rider	56	37	21	14	20	15
Passenger	10	7	11	11	2	2
Pedestrian	26	23	21	19	6	6
All casualties	92	67	53	44	28	23
¹ Includes accidents where one of the contributory factors exceeding the speed limit or travelling too fast for conditions was reported, and in which a police officer attended the scene and a contributory factor was reported.

Volume 494: debated on Friday 26 June 2009