Written question asked by Norman Baker (Liberal Democrat) on Tuesday, 15 December 2009, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 5 January 2010. It was answered by Paul Clark (Labour) on Wednesday, 6 January 2010 on behalf of the Department for Transport.

Roads: Accidents

Question: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport (1) how many (a) road traffic accidents, (b) road traffic fatalities, (c) accidents involving motorcyclists, (d) fatalities involving motorcyclists, (e) accidents involving cyclists and (f) fatalities involving cyclists there were in (i) East Sussex and (ii) Lewes constituency in each of the last five years;

Answer

The information requested is given in the tables.

Reported personal injury road accidents and fatalities in East Sussex 2004-08
	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
All injury accidents	2,795	2,746	2,657	2,769	2,554
Fatal accidents	43	52	46	31	42
Fatalities	48	58	46	32	44
Accidents involving motorcycles	372	378	365	346	395
Fatal accidents involving motorcycles	10	12	12	12	10
Fatalities in accidents involving motorcycles	10	12	12	12	10
Accidents involving pedal cycles	230	254	248	254	259
Fatal accidents involving pedal cycles	3	2	2	4	4
Fatalities in accidents involving pedal cycles	3	2	2	4	4

Reported personal injury road accidents and fatalities in Lewes¹: 2004-08
	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
All injury accidents	346	304	345	374	316
Fatal accidents	7	4	7	8	6
Fatalities	9	4	7	9	7
Accidents involving motorcycles	35	37	42	44	51
Fatal accidents involving motorcycles	2	1	3	3	1
Fatalities in accidents involving motorcycles	2	1	3	3	1
Accidents involving pedal cycles	21	21	20	19	32
Fatal accidents involving pedal cycles	0	0	0	1	1
Fatalities in accidents involving pedal cycles	0	0	0	1	1
¹ Based on 2004 constituency boundaries

Secondary information