Heavy Goods Vehicles

Mrs. Dunwoody
asked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will print a list of accident rates per mile of long distance heavy goods vehicle drivers for the five years prior to 1968 and the most recent five-year period for which figures are available, including the total number of accidents in each case, and showing such information as he has as to what proportion were caused by driver error.

Mr. Ridley
[pursuant to the reply, 28 October 1985, c. 327]: Data are only collectd on road accidents which involve personal injury. Details are not collected on the causes of accidents or the length of journeys. However the following figures are available: ------
|Year|
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|1963|
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|1964|
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|1965|
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|1966|
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|1967|
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|1968|
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|Year|
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|1980|
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|1981|
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|1982|
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|1983|
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|1984|
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