Written question asked by Adrian Sanders (Liberal Democrat) on Wednesday, 27 January 2010, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Friday, 29 January 2010. It was answered by Paul Clark (Labour) on Wednesday, 3 February 2010 on behalf of the Department for Transport.

Roads: Accidents

Question: (2) how many road traffic accidents there were in (a) Devon and (b) Torbay constituency in each of the last five years; how many such accidents involved (i) motorcyclists and (ii) cyclists in each such year; and how many accidents of each type resulted in loss of life in each such year.

Answer

The information requested is shown in the following table:

Reported personal injury road accidents in Devon county and Torbay parliamentary constituency¹: 2004-08
	Accident year
	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Devon county
All accidents	3,797	4,002	3,822	3,782	3,191
Ail accidents involving a motorcycle²	556	560	469	513	465
All accidents involving a pedal cycle²	279	282	275	260	259

All fatal accidents	41	54	41	53	40
All fatal accidents involving a motorcycle²	15	17	5	16	11
All fatal accidents involving a pedal cycle²	1	2	3	0	4

Torbay parliamentary constituency
All accidents	347	328	301	291	283
All accidents involving a motorcycle²	53	52	36	49	42
All accidents involving a pedal cycle²	25	14	22	17	24

All fatal accidents	3	1	2	2	2
All fatal accidents involving a motorcycle²	0	0	0	0	0
All fatal accidents involving a pedal cycle²	0	0	0	0	1
¹ Based on 2004 parliamentary constituency boundaries. ² Includes accidents involving both motorcycles and pedal cycles. There were two such accidents in Devon in 2008.

Secondary information