Emergency Services: Accidents Norman Baker To ask the Secretary of State for Transport pursuant to the answer of 31 January 2008, Official Report, column 538W, on emergency services: accidents, how many accidents occurred involving blue light vehicles from the (a) police force, (b) fire service and (c) ambulance service in each of the last five years; and how many (i) deaths and (ii) serious injuries resulted from accidents in each such category, broken down by region. Jim Fitzpatrick The numbers of reported personal injury road accidents involving vehicles from (a) the police force, (b) the fire service and (c) the ambulance service and the number of resulting fatalities and seriously injured casualties in each region for each of the last five years are shown in the tables: ----------------------------------------------- | |Number of accidents| ----------------------------------------------- |Government Office Regions|2002 |2003|2004|2005|2006| ----------------------------------------------- |North East |133 |129|123|119|118| ----------------------------------------------- |North West |352 |291|333|362|351| ----------------------------------------------- |Yorkshire and the Humber |351 |311|320|274|259| ----------------------------------------------- |East Midlands |171 |165|157|122|109| ----------------------------------------------- |West Midlands |219 |232|238|198|218| ----------------------------------------------- |East of England |195 |189|198|162|160| ----------------------------------------------- |South East |299 |290|245|243|258| ----------------------------------------------- |London |110 |74|70|19|32| ----------------------------------------------- |South West |171 |149|157|165|161| ----------------------------------------------- |Wales |88 |88|95|82|91| ----------------------------------------------- |Scotland |95 |107|90|71|70| ----------------------------------------------- |Great Britain |2,184 |2,025|2,026|1,817|1,827| ----------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------- | |Number of accidents| ----------------------------------------------- |Government Office Regions|2002 |2003|2004|2005|2006| ----------------------------------------------- |North East |9 |4|11|3|4| ----------------------------------------------- |North West |20 |25|17|17|9| ----------------------------------------------- |Yorkshire and the Humber |20 |11|7|7|6| ----------------------------------------------- |East Midlands |4 |7|9|4|5| ----------------------------------------------- |West Midlands |7 |15|14|3|1.2| ----------------------------------------------- |East of England |10 |6|10|13|9| ----------------------------------------------- |South East |8 |15|18|15|11| ----------------------------------------------- |London |12 |16|11|7|17| ----------------------------------------------- |South West |9 |10|9|10|7| ----------------------------------------------- |Wales |3 |6|5|3|4| ----------------------------------------------- |Scotland |8 |10|7|9|7| ----------------------------------------------- |Great Britain |110 |125|118|91|91| ----------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------- | |Number of accidents| ----------------------------------------------- |Government Office Regions|2002 |2003|2004|2005|2006| ----------------------------------------------- |North East |8 |7|11|10|18| ----------------------------------------------- |North West |46 |44|35|36|24| ----------------------------------------------- |Yorkshire and the Humber |40 |37|30|33|25| ----------------------------------------------- |East Midlands |20 |25|26|24|23| ----------------------------------------------- |West Midlands |28 |36|31|20|23| ----------------------------------------------- |East of England |34 |26|22|16|21| ----------------------------------------------- |South East |37 |49|30|45|44| ----------------------------------------------- |London |42 |47|47|34|31| ----------------------------------------------- |South West |19 |38|31|26|27| ----------------------------------------------- |Wales |20 |29|14|20|19| ----------------------------------------------- |Scotland |14 |15|15|20|19| ----------------------------------------------- |Great Britain |308 |353|292|284|274| ----------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------ | |Number of casualties| ------------------------------------------------ | |2002 |2003|2004|2005|2006| ------------------------------------------------ |Government Office Regions|Fatal |Serious|Fatal|Serious|Fatal|Serious|Fatal|Serious|Fatal|Serious| ------------------------------------------------ |North East |2 |10|1|16|3|20|0|19|2|13| ------------------------------------------------ |North West |7 |57|9|26|3|58|7|47|11|55| ------------------------------------------------ |Yorkshire and the Humber |1 |54|0|29|3|47|2|46.|6|33| ------------------------------------------------ |East Midlands |8 |26|3|23|6|23|0|13|1|26| ------------------------------------------------ |West Midlands |1 |28|3|29|3|35|2|23|3|25| ------------------------------------------------ |East of England |5 |33|4|28|3|19|3|20|1|23| ------------------------------------------------ |South East |2 |53|4|41|5|35|7|31|4|30| ------------------------------------------------ |London |1 |21|0|4|1|15|0|0|0|6*| ------------------------------------------------ |South West |3 |26|1|15|2|25|2|13|1|18| ------------------------------------------------ |Wales |4 |10|1|9|1|4|1|7|0|8| ------------------------------------------------ |Scotland |0 |15|1|25|1|12|2|3|1|7| ------------------------------------------------ |Great Britain |34 |333|27|245|31|293|26|222|30|244| ------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------ | |Number of casualties| ------------------------------------------------ | |2002 |2003|2004|2005|2006| ------------------------------------------------ |Government Office Regions|Fatal |Serious|Fatal|Serious|Fatal|Serious|Fatal|Serious|Fatal|Serious| ------------------------------------------------ |North East |0 |1|0|0|0|1|1|1|0|2| ------------------------------------------------ |North West |0 |0|1|0|1|3|0|2|0|1| ------------------------------------------------ |Yorkshire and the Humber |0 |3|1|7|2|2|0|1|0|0| ------------------------------------------------ |East Midlands |0 |0|1|3|1|0|0|0|0|0| ------------------------------------------------ |West Midlands |0 |0|0|1|0|1|0|0|0|1| ------------------------------------------------ |East of England |0 |1|1|0|0|1|0|2|0|1| ------------------------------------------------ |South East |0 |2|0|1|0|6|0|2|0|4| ------------------------------------------------ |London |0 |0|0|8|0|2|0|2|0|7| ------------------------------------------------ |South West |0 |2|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|1| ------------------------------------------------ |Wales |0 |0|0|1|0|0|0|0|0|1| ------------------------------------------------ |Scotland |0 |0|0|3|0|2|1|3|0|0| ------------------------------------------------ |Great Britain |0 |9|4|24|4|18|2|13|0|18| ------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------ | |Number of casualties| ------------------------------------------------ | |2002 |2003|2004|2005|2006| ------------------------------------------------ |Government Office Regions|Fatal |Serious|Fatal|Serious|Fatal|Serious|Fatal|Serious|Fatal|Serious| ------------------------------------------------ |North East |0 |0|0|1|0|0|0|0|0|1| ------------------------------------------------ |North West |0 |3|0|4|0|3|0|0|0|5| ------------------------------------------------ |Yorkshire and the Humber |0 |9|0|5|0|8|0|10|0|3| ------------------------------------------------ |East Midlands |0 |4|2|3|3|4|0|2|0|5| ------------------------------------------------ |West Midlands |0 |4|0|4|0|1|0|3|0|0| ------------------------------------------------ |East of England |1 |5|1|3|1|5|2|3|1|6| ------------------------------------------------ |South East |1 |11|2|5|0|1|1|3|1|6| ------------------------------------------------ |London |1 |8|3|17|0|11|0|4|1|10| ------------------------------------------------ |South West |2 |4|2|5|0|4|0|1|1|2| ------------------------------------------------ |Wales |0 |3|1|1|0|1|1|2|0|3| ------------------------------------------------ |Scotland |0 |1|0|6|0|5|1|4|1|2| ------------------------------------------------ |Great Britain |5 |52|11|54|4|43|5|32|5|43| ------------------------------------------------