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Written question asked by Jim Cunningham (Labour) on Wednesday, 13 June 2018, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 18 June 2018 (named day). It was answered by Jesse Norman (Conservative) on Monday, 18 June 2018 on behalf of the Department for Transport.

Roads: Accidents

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the effect of the installation of smart motorways on the level of road traffic accidents in each of the last three years.

Answer

England’s motorways are among the safest roads in the world and each smart motorway scheme should be at least as safe as the traditional motorway it replaces.

Over the last three years, Highways England have focused their assessment of the effect of the installation of smart motorways on the level of road traffic accidents through a detailed review of the operational M25 schemes, which has demonstrated that the safety objectives set for these all lane running smart motorways have been met, as set out in the following table:

M25 Smart Motorway Monitoring reports

Smart Motorway Scheme

Scheme open

Road traffic accident rate before (2011-14) (accidents per million vehicle miles)

Road traffic accident rate after 1 year (2014-15) (accidents per million vehicle miles)

Road traffic accident rate after 2 years (2015-16) (accidents per million vehicle miles)

Road traffic accident rate after 3 years (2016-17) (accidents per million vehicle miles)

M25 J5-6

2014

13.146

10.13

9.610

9.329

M25 J23-27

2014

12.871

10.369

11.502

11.234

Further detail of the M25 evaluation reports can be found here:

M25 J23-27 Smart Motorway - 1 year evaluation report

http://assets.highways.gov.uk/specialist-information/knowledge-compendium/2014-2015/M25+J23-27+SM-ALR+Monitoring+12+Month+Evaluation+Report.pdf

M25 J23-27 Smart Motorway - 2 year evaluation report

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/601565/M25_J23-27_SM-ALR_Monitoring_Yr2_Evaluation_v2.0.pdf

M25 J5-7 Smart Motorway - 1 year evaluation report

http://assets.highways.gov.uk/specialist-information/knowledge-compendium/2014-2015/M25+J5-7+SM+ALR+Monitoring+12+Month+Evaluation+Report_v2.0_Final.pdf

M25 J5-7 Smart Motorway – 2 year evaluation report

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/601568/M25_J5-7_SM-ALR_Monitoring_Yr2_Evaluation_v2.0.pdf

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
153183
Session
2017-19
Subjects
Accidents Motorways Roads
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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