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Lorries: Accidents

Volume 501: debated on Wednesday 2 December 2009

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Norman Baker

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many accidents involving (a) UK-registered and (b) non-UK registered heavy goods vehicles were recorded on UK roads in each of the last 10 years. (302814)

Paul Clark

Data concerning whether vehicles involved in personal injury road accidents are foreign registered have only been collected from 2005. The table shows the number of personal injury road accidents since 2005 involving known foreign registered HGVs and HGVs recorded as not foreign registered:

Reported personal injury accidents involving heavy goods vehicles: GB 2005-08

Accidents involving foreign registered HGVs

Accidents involving HGVs not registered as foreign1

All HGV accidents2

2005

1,098

9,835

11,162

2006

1,047

9,342

10,466

2007

919

8,995

9,829

2008

836

7,644

8,415

1 Includes some cases where at the time of reporting it was not known whether an HGV was foreign registered.

2 Includes cases where it is not recorded whether HGV is foreign registered. Accidents can include both foreign registered HGVs and HGVs not registered as foreign so the total may be smaller than the sum of other two figures.