Written question asked by Jim Fitzpatrick (Labour) on Monday, 13 May 2019, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 15 May 2019. It was answered by Jesse Norman (Conservative) on Monday, 20 May 2019 on behalf of the Department for Transport.

Roads: Accidents

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the cost to the economy of road crashes resulting in (a) deaths and (b) serious injuries in the last three years.

Answer

The latest figures available for the total cost elements of reported accidents are:

	Deaths	Serious injuries
2017	£3,571M (at 2017 prices)	£5,490M (at 2017 prices)

A full breakdown on accident and casualty costs by year has been published on www.gov.uk (see https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/ras60-average-value-of-preventing-road-accidents - Table RAS60003 has the total value of prevention for accidents of all severity, by cost element.)

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