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To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many fatal road accidents there have been in North Shropshire constituency in each month of each year since 1997.

Asked by

Owen Paterson (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Transport

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

29 March 2010

For answer on

6 April 2010

Answered on

6 April 2010

The information requested in shown in the following table:

Reported fatal personal injury road accidents in North Shropshire constituency¹, by month: 1997 to 2008
Fatal accidents
Year/month	Jan	Feb	March	April	May	June	July	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec	Total
1997	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	5
1998	1	1	1	0	2	0	2	1	0	1	0	0	9
1999	3	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	10
2000	0	0	3	3	2	2	0	3	0	2	0	0	15
2001	0	0	0	1	1	1	2	1	0	3	1	2	12
2002	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	3	2	0	2	10
2003	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	2	0	0	1	0	7
2004	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	1	0	5
2005	4	0	1	0	0	2	0	1	1	0	1	2	12
2006	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	3
2007	1	1	0	0	2	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	7
2008	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	6
¹ Based on 2004 parliamentary constituency boundaries.

Date

6 April 2010

Reference

508 c1166-8W; 325440

House

House of Commons

Roads: Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) how many (a) road traffic accidents (RTAs) and (b) RTAs involving serious injury or fatalities were recorded in each year since 1997 in which mechanical failure or defects, including tyres, have been identified as the cause or a contributory factor;

Asked by

Owen Paterson (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Transport

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

21 June 2007

Reference

145152; 461 c2119-20W

House

House of Commons

Roads: Accidents

(2) what types of defects detectable during the MOT test have led to serious and fatal accidents in each year since 1997.

Asked by

Owen Paterson (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Transport

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

21 June 2007

Reference

145157; 461 c2119-20W

House

House of Commons

Police

Last Monday, a reply by the Under-Secretary to a question I had tabled showed that the number of traffic officers declined from 7,525 in 1998 to 6,511 in 2005, which is a drop of more than 1,000 in seven years. Does he consider, as many criminals use vehicles, that that will help or hinder the arrest rate?

Asked by

Owen Paterson (Conservative)

Answering body

Home Office

Oral questions - Supplementary

Status

Answered

Date

11 June 2007

Reference

461 c503

House

House of Commons

Roads: Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the average cost to the public purse of each (a) fatal road traffic accident, (b) serious road traffic accident and (c) minor road traffic accident was in the latest period for which figures are available.

Asked by

Owen Paterson (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Transport

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

4 June 2007

Reference

139668; 461 c109W

House

House of Commons

Roads: Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the cost to the public purse has been of (a) fatal road traffic accidents, (b) serious road traffic accidents and (c) minor road traffic accidents in each year since 1997.

Asked by

Owen Paterson (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Transport

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

22 May 2007

For answer on

24 May 2007

Answered on

4 June 2007

The values used to estimate the benefits of the prevention of road accidents are set out in the "Highways Economic Note No. 1: 2005 Valuation of the Benefits of Prevention of Road Accidents and Casualties" which can be found on the DfT website at"http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/roadsafety/ea/."Included within these values are the costs to public funds for medical, ambulance and police costs (emergency services). The estimated totals of such costs in each year since 1997 in Great Britain are set out in the following table.

Estimated cost of emergency services
£ million
	Fatal accidents	Serious accidents	Slight accidents
2005	21	334	202
2004	21	349	201
2003	25	356	198
2002	25	366	198
2001	24	356	188
2000	14	360	190
1999	19	346	178
1998	24	346	167
1997	24	346	167

The values reported in the ““Highways Economic Note No. 1: 2005 Valuation of the Benefits of Prevention of Road Accidents and Casualties”” also cover a wide range of other costs incurred following accidents. These include the human costs of pain, grief and suffering, insurance and administrative costs, damage to property and lost output. Some element of these costs must be borne by the public sector, but reliable estimates as to the size of this burden are not available.

Date

4 June 2007

Reference

139667; 461 c108-9W

House

House of Commons

Roads: Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many (a) fatal, (b) serious and (c) minor road traffic accidents were recorded in each year since 1997.

Asked by

Owen Paterson (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Transport

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

22 May 2007

For answer on

24 May 2007

Answered on

24 May 2007

The number of reported personal injury road accidents by severity for each year since 1997 is given in the table.

Number of accidents by severity, GB: 1997-2005
	Fatal	Serious	Slight	All severities
1997	3,298	36,330	200,659	240,287
1998	3,137	34,633	201,153	238,923
1999	3,138	33,267	198,643	235,048
2000	3,108	32,499	198,122	233,729
2001	3,176	31,588	194,250	229,014
2002	3,124	30,521	188,106	221,751
2003	3,247	28,913	181,870	214,030
2004	2,978	26,748	177,684	207,410
2005	2,913	25,029	170,793	198,735

Date

24 May 2007

Reference

139682; 460 c1467-9W

House

House of Commons

Roads: Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what percentage of people aged (a) 17 to 23, (b) 24 to 29, (c) 30 to 39, (d) 40 to 49, (e) 50 to 59, (f) 60 to 69, (g) 70 to 79, (h) 80 to 89 and (i) over 90 years...

Asked by

Owen Paterson (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Transport

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

22 May 2007

For answer on

24 May 2007

Answered on

24 May 2007

The information requested is given in the following table.

Percentage of population involved in reported personal injury road accidents, by age and severity: GB 1997 to 2005
Percentage of population¹
		Age
	Severity	17 to 23	24 to 29	30 to 39	40 to 49	50 to 59	60 to 69	70 to 79	80 to 89	90 and over
1997	Fatal	0.02	0.01	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.07	0.01	0.01
	Serious	0.18	0.12	0.09	0.06	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.06	0.03
	Slight	1.20	0.86	0.62	0.43	0.33	0.24	0.21	0.18	0.09

1998	Fatal	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
	Serious	0.17	0.11	0.08	0.06	0.05	0.04	0.05	0.06	0.03
	Slight	1.17	0.86	0.63	0.44	0.33	0.24	0.21	0.18	0.10

1999	Fatal	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.01	0.01
	Serious	0.15	0.10	0.08	0.06	0.05	0.04	0.04	0.05	0.03
	Slight	1.11	0.84	0.63	0.44	0.33	0.24	0.20	0.18	0.10

2000	Fatal	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.01	0.01
	Serious	0.15	0.10	0.08	0.06	0.05	0.04	0.04	0.05	0.03
	Slight	1.10	0.83	0.64	0.45	0.34	0.24	0.20	0.17	0.09

2001	Fatal	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.01	0.01
	Serious	0.15	0.10	0.08	0.06	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.05	0.03
	Slight	1.07	0.79	0.62	0.45	0.32	0.24	0.20	0.18	0.10

2002	Fatal	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.01	0.07
	Serious	0.15	0.10	0.07	0.06	0.04	0.03	0.04	0.04	0.02
	Slight	1.05	0.76	0.60	0.44	0.32	0.23	0.20	0.17	0.10

2003	Fatal	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.01	0.01
	Serious	0.14	0.09	0.07	0.05	0.04	0.03	0.04	0.04	0.02
	Slight	0.99	0.73	0.57	0.43	0.30	0.23	0.19	0.17	0.10

2004	Fatal	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.01	0.01
	Serious	0.13	0.08	0.06	0.05	0.04	0.03	0.03	0.04	0.02
	Slight	0.97	0.70	0.54	0.41	0.30	0.21	0.18	0.17	0.09

2005	Fatal	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.01	0.01
	Serious	0.12	0.07	0.06	0.05	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03
	Slight	0.94	0.68	0.52	0.40	0.29	0.20	0.17	0.16	0.09
¹ 10.00 per cent. indicates that less than 0.005 per cent. of the age group were involved in accidents of the given severity.

The percentages are estimated by dividing the total number of reported casualties in each age group by the GB population estimate for 2005. Casualties will be counted more than once if they are in more than one accident.

Date

24 May 2007

Reference

139669; 460 c1467-8W

House

House of Commons

Roads: Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many vehicles were involved in (a) fatal, (b) serious and (c) minor road traffic accidents in each year since 1997, broken down by number and proportion of categories of vehicle.

Asked by

Owen Paterson (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Transport

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

22 May 2007

For answer on

24 May 2007

Answered on

24 May 2007

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

Date

24 May 2007

Reference

139575; 460 c1464-6W

House

House of Commons

Roads: Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many (a) UK licence holders and (b) foreign licence holders were involved in (i) fatal road traffic accidents, (ii) serious road traffic accidents and (iii) minor road traffic accidents in each year since 1997.

Asked by

Owen Paterson (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Transport

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

24 May 2007

Reference

139564; 460 c1464W

House

House of Commons

Roads: Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many and what proportion of (a) fatal, (b) serious and (c) minor road traffic accidents involved a foreign-registered car in each year since 1997.

Asked by

Owen Paterson (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Transport

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

22 May 2007

For answer on

24 May 2007

Answered on

24 May 2007

The number and percentage of reported personal injury road accidents involving at least one foreign registered car in 2005 is given in the following table.

Reported personal injury road accidents involving at least one foreign registered car, GB: 2005
Accident severity	Number of accidents	Percentage of all reported accidents
Fatal	15	0.5
Serious	84	0.3
Slight	730	0.4

This information is not available for years prior to 2005.

Date

24 May 2007

Reference

139609; 460 c1465-6W

House

House of Commons

Eddington Report

Sir Rod Eddington said that unless national road pricing was in place by 2015 there would have to be a substantial increase in inter-urban road building. Are the Government going to have national road pricing up and running by 2015? If not, what are they going to do?

Asked by

Owen Paterson (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Transport

Oral questions - Supplementary

Status

Answered

Date

17 April 2007

Reference

459 c149-50

House

House of Commons

Roads: Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport to what proportion of road traffic accidents the police called recovery vehicle services on (a) motorways and (b) all other roads in each of the last five years.

Asked by

Owen Paterson (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Transport

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

19 February 2007

Reference

457 c387W;457 c371W; 120752

House

House of Commons

Roads

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the average maintenance expenditure per mile of road on (a) A roads and (b) B roads was in each region in the last period for which figures are available.

Asked by

Owen Paterson (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Transport

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

20 November 2006

For answer on

22 November 2006

Answered on

27 November 2006

The relevant data are not currently compiled to show information for B roads separately from other non-principal roads. The available data for local roads in England are shown in the following table:

Maintenance expenditure per km of road length, England, 2004-05
£ per km
Region	Principal roads	Non-principal roads
East of England	24,492	5,967
East Midlands	16,640	5,541
North East	18,643	6,778
North West	24,585	8,110
South East	19,081	6,050
South West	17,738	4,243
West Midlands	20,447	5,798
Yorkshire and Humberside	18,355	5,346
London	157,313	16,086
England	28,473	6,366

Equivalent figures for Highways Agency maintained A roads are not readily available. Table 7.13 in Transport Statistics Great Britain, a copy of which is available in the Libraries of the House, provides estimates of Highways Agency expenditure on roads in Government Office Regions; however, this does not separately identify expenditure on maintenance from that on new construction, road improvements and winter servicing.

Date

27 November 2006

Reference

102639; 453 c272W

House

House of Commons

Road Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what response he has made to the report commissioned by his Department from TRL on the risks resulting from drivers’ vision being obstructed by A-pillars.

Asked by

Owen Paterson (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Transport

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

23 October 2006

Reference

95507; 450 c1535-6W;450 c1541-2W

House

House of Commons

Road Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what proportion of serious road traffic accidents involving speed limit excession in the last period for which figures are available also involved (a) unlicensed drivers, (b) unregistered drivers, (c) uninsured drivers, (d) drunk drivers and (e) stolen vehicles.

Asked by

Owen Paterson (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Transport

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

23 October 2006

Reference

95615; 450 c1536-7W;450 c1542-3W

House

House of Commons

Road Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what estimate he has made of the proportion of serious road traffic accidents that have involved a speed limit breach in each year since 1994.

Asked by

Owen Paterson (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Transport

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

23 October 2006

Reference

95513; 450 c1536W;450 c1542W

House

House of Commons

Road Pricing

We are interested in the merits of dynamic and variable road pricing to reduce congestion, but we do not quite understand why, following the collapse of the lorry road user charge scheme, the Government are setting up a number of unco-ordinated tag and beacon congestion schemes. Is it the Secretary of State’s intention to set up a national road pricing scheme?

Asked by

Owen Paterson (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Transport

Oral questions - Supplementary

Status

Answered

Date

17 October 2006

Reference

450 c715

House

House of Commons

Road Safety

(5) what assessment he has made of the extent to which motorists follow existing guidance in the Highway Code on the action to be taken following an accident or breakdown at the roadside; and if he will make a statement.

Asked by

Owen Paterson (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Transport

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

9 May 2006

For answer on

11 May 2006

Answered on

16 May 2006

We will continue to monitor experience in other countries that introduce legislation requiring drivers to wear reflective vests when leaving their vehicles at the roadside following a breakdown or accident. If clear evidence starts to emerge that it is beneficial, we would look again at the need to legislate.The Highway Code advises motorists and their passengers what action to take when leaving a vehicle at the roadside in the event of an accident or breakdown. The Department has also produced a leaflet, ““A Guide to Safer Motorway Driving””, which also covers breakdowns. This advises drivers and their passengers where to stand after a breakdown, so that they are least vulnerable to being hit by other vehicles.We have reviewed this advice as part of the current major revision of the Highway Code. The public consultation, which began on 15 February and ended on 12 May, includes proposed new advice to motorists in the section on breakdowns, which says"““help other road users see you by wearing light coloured fluorescent clothing in daylight and reflective clothing at night or in poor visibility””."We will now be considering all the responses to the consultation and the revised code should be issued next spring.No assessment has been made as to whether motorists follow the guidance in the Highway Code on actions to be taken following an accident. Although failure to comply with the non-statutory rules in the code will not, in itself, cause a person to be prosecuted, the code may be used in any court proceedings under the traffic acts to establish liability.

Date

16 May 2006

Reference

446 c824-5W; 70387

House

House of Commons

Road Safety

(4) when his Department last reviewed the advice to motorists provided in the Highway Code on the action to be taken following an accident or breakdown at the roadside; when he expects the consultation process on revising the Highway Code to be completed; and if he will make a statement;

Asked by

Owen Paterson (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Transport

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

9 May 2006

For answer on

11 May 2006

Answered on

16 May 2006

Date

16 May 2006

Reference

70386; 446 c824-5W

House

House of Commons

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