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Roads: Accidents

Answer

The number of vehicles in reported personal injury road accidents by accident severity broken down by number and proportion of vehicle type is given in the tables.

Number of vehicles involved in reported personal injury road accidents by vehicle type and accident severity, GB: 1997 to 2005
Number of vehicles
Accident severity	Vehicle type	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Fatal	Pedal cycle	199	167	187	141	145	141	124	144	158
	Motorcycle	570	570	617	695	673	694	783	659	620
	Car	3,979	3,714	3,634	3,516	3,654	3,728	3,773	3,520	3,465
	Bus or coach	129	136	139	136	164	125	119	121	108
	LGV	309	290	262	279	302	296	320	267	261
	HGV	572	595	617	565	588	570	533	472	520
	Other motor vehicle	63	81	83	91	74	87	86	80	62
	Other non-motor vehicle	14	11	5	6	12	4	12	10	8
	Total	5,836	5,564	5,547	5,433	5,614	5,647	5,753	5,276	5,204
Serious	Pedal cycle	3,596	3,318	3,164	2,796	2,678	2,442	2,420	2,272	2,339
	Motorcycle	6,263	6,294	6,674	7,119	7,094	7,226	7,319	6,400	6,234
	Car	44,162	41,627	39,428	38,071	37,091	35,835	33,139	30,896	28,664
	Bus or coach	1,387	1,351	1,344	1,313	1,269	1,267	1,200	1,116	1,023
	LGV	2,858	2,823	2,414	2,341	2,358	2,258	2,189	1,940	1,819
	HGV	2,615	2,482	2,468	2,468	2,322	2,122	1,923	1,670	1,648
	Other motor vehicle	599	582	664	683	515	627	477	616	381
	Other non-motor vehicle	85	62	79	82	79	74	85	80	63
	Total	61,575	58,561	56,267	54,903	53,441	51,862	48,763	45,001	42,176
Slight	Pedal cycle	21,405	19,938	20,131	18,118	16,674	14,949	14,928	14,668	14,542
	Motorcycle	18,378	18,650	19,831	21,422	22,317	21,583	21,421	19,798	19,016
	Car	290,783	292,453	286,804	288,259	281,155	275,005	263,021	257,426	249,681
	Bus or coach	9,725	10,275	10,405	10,284	10,088	9,389	9,620	9,336	8,857
	LGV	16,903	16,970	15,376	15,051	15,654	15,201	14,977	13,521	13,998
	HGV	11,198	11,449	12,106	12,161	11,903	10,788	10,717	10,374	9,952
	Other motor vehicle	2,704	2,830	3,535	3,777	2,662	3,472	2,481	4,091	2,464
	Other non-motor vehicle	312	279	318	337	340	288	250	295	254
	Total	371,466	372,980	368,678	369,607	361,018	350,816	337,506	329,568	318,856

Percentage of vehicles involved in reported personal injury road accidents by vehicle type and severity of accident, GB: 1997 to 2005
Percentage of vehicles
Severity	Vehicle type	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Fatal	Pedal cycle	3.4	3.0	3.4	2.6	2.6	2.5	2.2	2.7	3.0
	Motorcycle	9.8	10.2	11.1	12.8	12.0	12.3	13.6	12.5	11.9
	Car	68.2	66.8	65.5	64.7	65.1	66.0	65.6	66.7	66.6
	Bus or coach	2.2	2.4	2.5	2.5	2.9	2.2	2.1	2.3	2.1
	LGV	5.3	5.2	4.7	5.1	5.4	5.2	5.6	5.1	5.0
	HGV	9.8	10.7	11.1	10.4	10.5	10.1	9.3	8.9	10.0
	Other motor vehicle	1.1	1.5	1.5	1.7	1.3	1.5	1.5	1.5	1.2
	Other non-motor vehicle	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.2
	Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Serious	Pedal cycle	5.8	5.7	5.6	5.1	5.0	4.7	5.0	5.0	5.5
	Motorcycle	10.2	10.7	11.9	13.0	13.3	13.9	15.0	14.2	14.8
	Car	71.7	71.1	70.1	69.3	69.4	69.1	68.0	68.7	68.0
	Bus or coach	2.3	2.3	2.4	2.4	2.4	2.4	2.5	2.5	2.4
	LGV	4.6	4.8	4.3	4.3	4.4	4.4	4.5	4.3	4.3
	HGV	4.2	4.2	4.4	4.5	4.3	4.1	3.9	3.7	3.9
	Other motor vehicle	1.0	1.0	1.2	1.2	1.0	1.2	1.0	1.4	0.9
	Other non-motor vehicle	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.1
	Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Slight	Pedal cycle	5.8	5.3	5.5	4.9	4.6	4.3	4.4	4.5	4.6
	Motorcycle	4.9	5.0	5.4	5.8	6.2	6.2	6.3	6.0	6.0
	Car	78.3	78.4	77.8	78.0	77.9	78.4	77.9	78.1	78.3
	Bus or coach	2.6	2.8	2.8	2.8	2.8	2.7	2.9	2.8	2.8
	LGV	4.6	4.5	4.2	4.1	4.3	4.3	4.4	4.1	4.4
	HGV	3.0	3.1	3.3	3.3	3.3	3.1	3.2	3.1	3.1
	Other motor vehicle	0.7	0.8	1.0	1.0	0.7	1.0	0.7	1.2	0.8
	Other non-motor vehicle	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
	Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

139575; 460 c1464-6W

Session

2006-07

Subjects

Accidents Roads

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