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To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 11 December 2014 to Question 217210, how much funding his Department has allocated to each district and unitary council in (a) Suffolk, (b) Bedfordshire, (c) Cambridgeshire, (d) Essex, (e) Hertfordshire and (f) Norfolk for road improvement in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 11 December 2014 to Question 217210, how much funding his Department has allocated to each district and unitary council in (a) Suffolk, (b) Bedfordshire, (c) Cambridgeshire, (d) Essex, (e) Hertfordshire and (f) Norfolk for road improvement in...
The table below lists the funding the Department for Transport has allocated to (a) Suffolk, (b) Bedfordshire, (c) Cambridgeshire, (d) Essex, (e) Hertfordshire and (f) Norfolk for road improvement since 2005:
| £m | £m | £m | £m | £m | £m |
Year | Suffolk | Bedfordshire* | Cambridgeshire | Essex | Hertfordshire | Norfolk |
05/06 | 22.6 | 9.4 | 21.0 | 31.9 | 21.2 | 29.3 |
06/07 | 23.6 | 9.6 | 21.4 | 30.0 | 23.9 | 30.5 |
07/08 | 21.5 | 7.8 | 20.3 | 34.9 | 24.2 | 32.5 |
08/09 | 23.0 | 8.7 | 21.4 | 33.6 | 25.6 | 31.4 |
09/10 | 21.7 | 9.2 | 19.4 | 39.4 | 25.9 | 30.5 |
10/11 | 23.2 | 9.5 | 18.9 | 60.0 | 26.5 | 32.1 |
11/12 | 27.2 | 10.4 | 17.8 | 61.2 | 30.6 | 35.2 |
12/13 | 21.8 | 9.1 | 14.8 | 34.4 | 24.8 | 26.7 |
13/14 | 24.3 | 17.3 | 16.8 | 33.1 | 27.2 | 30.4 |
14/15 | 33.9 | 14.8 | 20.3 | 44.5 | 32.9 | 60.8 |
* from 2010/11 Bedfordshire split into the 2 unitary authorities of Central Bedfordshire and Bedford and therefore this figure is the sum of their allocations.
The Department does not provide any funding directly to district councils. The table below lists the funding provided to the Unitary Authorities that fall within the historical counties of Suffolk, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire and Norfolk for road improvement since 2005:
| £m | £m | £m | £m | £m | £m |
Year | Bedford* | Central Bedfordshire* | Luton | Peterborough | Southend on Sea | Thurrock |
05/06 | 4.0 | 5.5 | 4.4 | 6.6 | ||
06/07 | 3.5 | 4.1 | 4.3 | 5.3 | ||
07/08 | 4.0 | 7.7 | 4.5 | 3.2 | ||
08/09 | 6.5 | 6.4 | 4.1 | 3.0 | ||
09/10 | 3.9 | 11.0 | 4.1 | 3.1 | ||
10/11 | 3.9 | 5.6 | 3.3 | 10.5 | 3.7 | 2.9 |
11/12 | 4.3 | 6.1 | 2.9 | 5.5 | 3.5 | 3.2 |
12/13 | 3.8 | 5.3 | 4.9 | 4.5 | 2.9 | 3.0 |
13/14 | 8.8 | 8.5 | 13.8 | 8.4 | 3.2 | 2.9 |
14/15 | 5.2 | 9.6 | 5.3 | 7.2 | 6.7 | 3.5 |
* from 2010/11 the 2 unitary authorities of Central Bedfordshire and Bedford came into being and therefore this figure is the sum of the allocations to Bedfordshire.
These tables include funding we have provided through the local Highways Maintenance Block, Integrated Transport Block, Severe Weather Funding, Local Major Projects and Local Pinch Point Fund schemes. The table does not include funding provided through the Bus Service Operators Grant, Local Sustainable Transport Fund, or Cycling Grant.
Local authorities are also able to use revenue funding, allocated by the Department of Communities and Local Government through the Revenue Support Grant for maintaining their local highways. It is for local highway authorities to decide upon their spending priorities across the whole range of services that they provide.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding his Department allocated to each local authority in (a) Suffolk, (b) Bedfordshire, (c) Cambridgeshire, (d) Hertfordshire, (e) Norfolk and (g) England for road improvement in each year since 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding his Department allocated to each local authority in (a) Suffolk, (b) Bedfordshire, (c) Cambridgeshire, (d) Hertfordshire, (e) Norfolk and (g) England for road improvement in each year since 1997.
The table below lists the funding the Department for Transport has allocated to (a) Suffolk, (b) Bedfordshire, (c) Cambridgeshire, (d) Hertfordshire, (e) Norfolk and (g) England for road improvement for which records are available:
Year | Suffolk | Bedfordshire* | Cambridgeshire | Hertfordshire | Norfolk | England |
00/01 | 8.5 | 4.0 | 7.3 | 9.5 | 9.2 | 514.4 |
01/02 | 21.0 | 7.1 | 15.1 | 22.6 | 29.2 | 1,074.0 |
02/03 | 20.0 | 6.6 | 15.5 | 23.5 | 29.5 | 1,123.4 |
03/04 | 20.6 | 7.4 | 18.1 | 22.1 | 29.4 | 1,178.5 |
04/05 | 22.2 | 8.0 | 22.0 | 21.6 | 33.0 | 1,308.4 |
05/06 | 22.6 | 9.4 | 21.0 | 21.2 | 29.3 | 1,212.4 |
06/07 | 23.6 | 9.6 | 21.4 | 23.9 | 30.5 | 1,262.7 |
07/08 | 21.5 | 7.8 | 20.3 | 24.2 | 32.5 | 1,245.0 |
08/09 | 23.0 | 8.7 | 21.4 | 25.6 | 31.4 | 1,456.1 |
09/10 | 21.7 | 9.2 | 19.4 | 25.9 | 30.5 | 1,552.0 |
10/11 | 23.2 | 9.5 | 18.9 | 26.5 | 32.1 | 1,552.1 |
11/12 | 27.2 | 10.4 | 17.8 | 30.6 | 35.2 | 1,482.6 |
12/13 | 21.8 | 9.1 | 14.8 | 24.8 | 26.7 | 1,227.9 |
13/14 | 24.3 | 17.3 | 16.8 | 27/2 | 30.4 | 1,576.2 |
14/15 | 33.9 | 14.8 | 20.3 | 32.9 | 60.8 | 2,025.2 |
* from 2010/11 Bedfordshire split into the 2 unitary authorities of Central Bedfordshire and Bedford and therefore this figure is the sum of their allocations.
This table includes funding we have provided through the local Highways Maintenance Block, Integrated Transport Block, Severe Weather Funding, Local Major Projects and Local Pinch Point Fund schemes. The table does not include funding provided through the Bus Service Operators Grant, Local Sustainable Transport Fund, or Cycling Grant.
The Department is also funding local highways maintenance projects in Portsmouth, Birmingham, Sheffield, Isle of Wight and the London Borough of Hounslow through the Private Finance Initiative.
Local authorities are also able to use revenue funding, allocated by the Department of Communities and Local Government through the Revenue Support Grant for maintaining their local highways. It is for local highway authorities to decide upon their spending priorities across the whole range of services that they provide.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding his Department has allocated to each local authority in England and Wales for road improvement in each year since 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding his Department has allocated to each local authority in England and Wales for road improvement in each year since 2010.
The Government is committed to improving the local road network. Road improvements in Wales are a devolved matter and therefore the responsibility of the Welsh Government.
The attached table includes funding we have provided through the local Highways Maintenance Block, Integrated Transport Block, Severe Weather Funding, Local Major Projects and Local Pinch Point Fund schemes. The table does not include funding provided through the Bus Service Operators Grant, Local Sustainable Transport Fund, or Cycling Grant.
The Department is also funding local highways maintenance projects in Portsmouth, Birmingham, Sheffield, Isle of Wight and the London Borough of Hounslow through the Private Finance Initiative.
Local authorities are also able to use revenue funding, allocated by the Department of Communities and Local Government through the Revenue Support Grant for maintaining their local highways. It is for local highway authorities to decide upon their spending priorities across the whole range of services that they provide.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much funding his Department has allocated to each local authority in the East of England for road improvement in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much funding his Department has allocated to each local authority in the East of England for road improvement in each of the last five years.
The Department for Transport provides funding to local highway authorities through a number of funding programmes. This funding includes grant through both the Highways Maintenance and Integrated Transport Block grants. This funding can be used to improve local roads that the authorities are responsible for if they so wish.
The following tables provide the funding we have allocated to those authorities that fall within the East of England since 2010-11:
| Local
Highways Maintenance Capital Block
Grant | |
| Local
Transport Plan
Name | 2010-11
(£
million) |
| Bedfordshire
(Plan) | 7.031 |
| Cambridgeshire | 12.809 |
| Essex | 23.075 |
| Hertfordshire | 17.456 |
| Luton
and Dunstable (Joint
Plan) | 1.284 |
| Norfolk | 23.948 |
| Peterborough | 8.663 |
| Southend-on-Sea | 2.019 |
| Suffolk | 18.094 |
| Thurrock | 1.484 |
| £
million | ||||
| Local
Highway
Authority | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 |
| Bedford | 3.198 | 2.800 | 3.288 | 3.264 |
| Cambridgeshire | 13.394 | 10.695 | 12.750 | 11.662 |
| Central
Bedfordshire | 4.645 | 3.920 | 4.728 | 5.469 |
| Essex | 26.029 | 19.838 | 22.482 | 22.573 |
| Hertfordshire | 23.611 | 18.585 | 20.962 | 22.019 |
| Luton | 1.404 | 1.070 | 1.193 | 1.255 |
| Norfolk | 29.354 | 21.403 | 24.230 | 24.963 |
| Peterborough | 3.899 | 3.029 | 3.472 | 3.578 |
| Southend-on-Sea | 2.219 | 1.720 | 1.795 | 1.948 |
| Suffolk | 22.683 | 17.668 | 20.145 | 20.666 |
| Thurrock | 2.194 | 2.132 | 2.023 | 1.990 |
| Integrated
Transport Capital Block
Grant | |
| Local
Transport Plan
Name | 2010-11
(£
million) |
| Bedfordshire
(Plan) | 2.539 |
| Cambridgeshire | 6.104 |
| Essex | 10.455 |
| Hertfordshire | 8.755 |
| Luton
and Dunstable (Joint
Plan) | 2.014 |
| Norfolk | 8.224 |
| Peterborough | 1.818 |
| Southend-on-Sea | 1.660 |
| Suffolk | 5.061 |
| Thurrock | 1.366 |
| £
million | ||||
| Local
Authority | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 |
| Bedford | 1.101 | 1.006 | 1.006 | 1.415 |
| Cambridgeshire | 4.439 | 4.059 | 4.059 | 5.707 |
| Central
Bedfordshire | 1.464 | 1.338 | 1.338 | 1.882 |
| Essex | 9.150 | 8.366 | 8.366 | 11.764 |
| Hertfordshire | 6.804 | 6.221 | 6.221 | 8.748 |
| Luton | 1.470 | 1.344 | 1.344 | 1.890 |
| Norfolk | 5.824 | 5.324 | 5.324 | 7.487 |
| Peterborough | 1.640 | 1.500 | 1.500 | 2.109 |
| Southend-on-Sea | 1.245 | 1.138 | 1.138 | 1.600 |
| Suffolk | 4.508 | 4.122 | 4.122 | 5.796 |
| Thurrock | 0.960 | 0.878 | 0.878 | 1.235 |
Local authorities are also able to use revenue funding, allocated by the Department for Communities and Local Government through the Revenue Support Grant, for maintaining their local highways.
The Department has also provided funding to highway authorities for local major road schemes set out as follows:
| £
million | |||||
| Local
Highway
Authority | 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 |
| Essex | 26.4 | 26.0 | 6.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| Herts | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Luton | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.5 | 11.3 | 2.0 |
| Norfolk | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 19.0 |
| Note: Figures for 2010-11 to 2013-14 are actual spend figures. 2014-15 figures are allocations. |
The Department has also agreed to provide funding to authorities through the Local Pinch Point Fund. The Fund is aimed at removing bottlenecks on the local highway network and supporting growth-enhancing development. The Fund has been allocated to the following authorities in the last five years:
| £
million | |||
| Local
Authority | Scheme | 2013-14 | 2014-15 |
| Bedford
Borough
Council | Bedford
Western Bypass Northern
Section | 4.500 | 0 |
| Central
Bedfordshire
Council | Woodside
Link Houghton Regis
(A5-M1) | 2.350 | 2.650 |
| Essex
County
Council | A176
Nether Mayne,
Basildon | 0.763 | 1.583 |
| Essex
County
Council | A414/A1025
(Clock Tower) Junction,
Harlow | 0.809 | 2.104 |
| Essex
County
Council | Army
and Navy Improvements: A1060 Parkway
Widening | 0.441 | 0.675 |
| Essex
County
Council | Army
and Navy slip
road | 0.260 | 1.191 |
| Norfolk
County
Council | Great
Yarmouth A12-A143 Link
Road | 0.835 | 3.910 |
| Peterborough
City
Council | Junction
17 A1(M) - Junction 2 Fletton Parkway Widening
Scheme | 3.385 | 1.115 |
| Southend
on Sea
Council | A127
B1013 Tesco
Junction | 0.320 | 2.943 |
| Suffolk
County
Council | Completion
of Lowestoft Northern Spine Road (phase
5) | 0 | 4.635 |
| Note: Pinch Point Funding is available in financial years 2013-14 and 2014-15 only. |
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many road traffic accidents have occurred in Suffolk on each day of the week in each of the last three years.
[134431]
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many road traffic accidents have occurred in Suffolk on each day of the week in each of the last three years.
[134431]
The Department only collects information relating to personal injury accidents, and therefore does not include in its statistics damage-only accidents.
In each of the last three years, the total number of reported personal injury accidents occurring in Suffolk on each day of the week, were as follows:
| Reported
number of personal injury accidents in Suffolk, by day of week,
2009-11 | |||||||
| Number
of
accidents | |||||||
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | |
| 2009 | 220 | 276 | 302 | 297 | 266 | 311 | 275 |
| 2010 | 188 | 249 | 266 | 293 | 281 | 293 | 242 |
| 2011 | 193 | 240 | 268 | 283 | 288 | 332 | 247 |
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many road traffic collisions were responded to by police in (a) the Suffolk police force area and (b) England in (i) 2009, (ii) 2010, (iii) 2011 and (iv) 2012 to date; and how many such collisions involved a fatality.
[133659]
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many road traffic collisions were responded to by police in (a) the Suffolk police force area and (b) England in (i) 2009, (ii) 2010, (iii) 2011 and (iv) 2012 to date; and how many such collisions involved a fatality.
[133659]
The Department only collects information relating to personal injury accidents, and therefore does not include in its statistics damage-only accidents, or cases where a police officer attended an accident but did not report it.
In each of the last three years, the number of reported personal injury accidents and the number of those accidents involving a fatality, where a police officer attended the scene and obtained report details, in (a) the Suffolk police force area, and (b) England, were as follows:
| Reported
number of personal injury accidents in the Suffolk police force area,
and England, where a police officer attended the scene and obtained
report details,
2009-11 | ||||
| Number
of
Accidents | ||||
| 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | ||
| Suffolk | Fatal | 37 | 19 | 28 |
| Total | 1,640 | 1,523 | 1,598 | |
| England | Fatal | 1,715 | 1,431 | 1,491 |
| Total | 115,531 | 110,033 | 108,895 |
In-year totals for 2012 have only been published at Great Britain level. The latest published figures cover the period to June 2012 and are available at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/ras45-quarterly-statistics
Figures for geographic areas within Great Britain for the year 2012 are due for publication in June 2013.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much funding his Department has allocated for road safety improvements in (a) Suffolk, (b) Bedfordshire, (c) Cambridgeshire, (d) Essex, (e) Hertfordshire and (f) Norfolk in each of the last three years.
[133747]
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much funding his Department has allocated for road safety improvements in (a) Suffolk, (b) Bedfordshire, (c) Cambridgeshire, (d) Essex, (e) Hertfordshire and (f) Norfolk in each of the last three years.
[133747]
The Department does not make separate allocations for road safety improvements but such improvements can be funded via the Integrated Transport Block capital allocation. Over the last three years, the capital allocation for these specific authorities is as follows:
| All
figures £
million | |||
| 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | |
| Suffolk | 5.061 | 4.508 | 4.122 |
| Central
Bedfordshire | 1.995 | 1.464 | 1.339 |
| Cambridgeshire | 6.104 | .4.439 | 4.059 |
| Essex | 10.445 | 9.150 | 8.366 |
| Hertfordshire | 8.755 | 6.804 | 6.221 |
| Norfolk | 8.224 | 5.824 | 5.324 |
In addition, authorities are able to use revenue funding from the Department for Communities and Local Government's formula grant for road safety measures.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much funding his Department has allocated to each local authority for road improvement in each year since 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much funding his Department has allocated to each local authority for road improvement in each year since 1997.
| Major scheme spend | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| £000 | ||||
| Authority | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | 2008-09 | 2009-10 |
| Barnsley metropolitan borough council | 0 | 0 | 4,156 | 12,456 |
| Bedfordshire county council | 0 | 2,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Birmingham city council | 15,446 | 5,950 | 2,518 | 10,395 |
| Buckinghamshire county council | 22,658 | 11,705 | 0 | 0 |
| Central Bedfordshire council | 8,825 | 6,655 | 2,547 | 171 |
| Cheshire East borough council | 0 | 0 | 4,881 | 24,181 |
| Darlington borough council | 2,153 | 6,199 | 4,070 | 0 |
| Derby city council | 2,513 | 0 | 2,460 | 9,499 |
| Derbyshire county council | 11,960 | 3,575 | 8,900 | 425 |
| Devon county council | 11,410 | 1,124 | 1,000 | 0 |
| Dorset county council | 0 | 0 | 17,628 | 28,831 |
| Dudley metropolitan borough council | 2,126 | 8,819 | 7,320 | 4,559 |
| Durham county council | 300 | 6,069 | 4,084 | 347 |
| Essex county council | 0 | 1,200 | 0 | 4,600 |
| Hertfordshire county council | 3,250 | 1,300 | 763 | 602 |
| Kent county council | 10,000 | 1,000 | 374 | 17,956 |
| Leeds city council | 28,484 | 12,557 | 8,725 | 263 |
| Leicestershire county council | 0 | 6,341 | 9,662 | 39 |
| Lincolnshire county council | 5,825 | 7,975 | 29,937 | 33,436 |
| Liverpool city council | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4,289 |
| Medway council | 200 | 200 | 0 | 0 |
| Middlesbrough council | 0 | 0 | 6,335 | 5,929 |
| Newcastle-Upon-Tyne city | 2,809 | 839 | 200 | 200 |
| North Yorkshire county council | 8,051 | 14,967 | 13,318 | 0 |
| Northamptonshire county council | 6,200 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Northumberland county council | 2,710 | 257 | 183 | 5 |
| Nottingham city council | 2,800 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Poole borough council | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2,425 |
| Reading borough council | 0 | 0 | 31,374 | 27,597 |
| Rotherham metropolitan borough council | 2,060 | 2,405 | 563 | 1,102 |
| Rutland county council | 7,811 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Salford city council | 847 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sandwell metropolitan borough council | 0 | 5,000 | 8,507 | 8,349 |
| Sheffield city council | 3,700 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Somerset county council | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2,469 |
| South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive | 933 | 1,064 | 2,000 | 0 |
| St Helens metropolitan borough council | 5,800 | 0 | 91 | 879 |
| Staffordshire county council | 8,800 | 4,300 | 600 | 0 |
| Stockton-on-Tees borough council | 200 | 400 | 0 | 0 |
| Stoke-on-Trent city council | 1,856 | 3,306 | 0 | 0 |
| Suffolk county council | 0 | 0 | 6,827 | 5,173 |
| Sunderland city council | 8,615 | 2,445 | 0 | 0 |
| Wakefield metropolitan borough council | 0 | 6,054 | 17,654 | 5,627 |
| Warwickshire county council | 5,981 | 11,254 | 12,685 | 13 |
| Total | 194,323 | 134,959 | 209,361 | 211,817 |
(2) how many road traffic (a) accidents and (b) fatalities there have been on the A14 in Suffolk involving drivers aged under 21 years in each year since 1997.
(2) how many road traffic (a) accidents and (b) fatalities there have been on the A14 in Suffolk involving drivers aged under 21 years in each year since 1997.
| Reported personal injury road accidents and fatalities in Bury St Edmunds parliamentary constituency and Suffolk: 1997 to 2009 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (i) Bury St Edmunds¹ | (ii) Suffolk | |||
| (a) Accidents | (b) Fatalities | (a) Accidents | (b) Fatalities | |
| 1997 | 334 | 9 | 2,224 | 43 |
| 1998 | 333 | 3 | 2,251 | 23 |
| 1999 | 296 | 8 | 2,298 | 48 |
| 2000 | 360 | 9 | 2,312 | 56 |
| 2001 | 326 | 7 | 2,356 | 53 |
| 2002 | 315 | 6 | 2,300 | 43 |
| 2003 | 343 | 7 | 2,341 | 60 |
| 2004 | 310 | 5 | 2,220 | 42 |
| 2005 | 308 | 5 | 2,237 | 36 |
| 2006 | 297 | 5 | 2,087 | 47 |
| 2007 | 293 | 7 | 2,076 | 39 |
| 2008 | 279 | 1 | 2,061 | 31 |
| 2009 | 266 | 3 | 1,947 | 42 |
| ¹ Based on the 2010 parliamentary constituency boundaries |
| Reported personal injury road accidents and fatalities, involving at least one driver or rider aged under 21 years, on the A14 in Suffolk: 1997 to 2009 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (a) Accidents involving | Fatalities in accidents involving | |||
| Drivers¹ aged under 21 | Drivers/riders of other vehicles² aged under 21 | Drivers¹ aged under 21 | Drivers/riders of other vehicles² aged under 21 | |
| 1997 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 1998 | 17 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 1999 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2000 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2001 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2002 | 18 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 2003 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 2004 | 21 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2005 | 19 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 2006 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2007 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2008 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2009 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| ¹ Cars, goods vehicles, bus and coach drivers. | ||||
| ² Includes pedal cycles, motorcycles, other and unknown vehicles. |
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) how many road traffic (a) accidents and (b) fatalities there were in (i) Bury St Edmunds constituency and (ii) Suffolk in each year since 1997;
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) how many road traffic (a) accidents and (b) fatalities there were in (i) Bury St Edmunds constituency and (ii) Suffolk in each year since 1997;
| Reported personal injury road accidents and fatalities in Bury St Edmunds parliamentary constituency and Suffolk: 1997 to 2009 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (i) Bury St Edmunds¹ | (ii) Suffolk | |||
| (a) Accidents | (b) Fatalities | (a) Accidents | (b) Fatalities | |
| 1997 | 334 | 9 | 2,224 | 43 |
| 1998 | 333 | 3 | 2,251 | 23 |
| 1999 | 296 | 8 | 2,298 | 48 |
| 2000 | 360 | 9 | 2,312 | 56 |
| 2001 | 326 | 7 | 2,356 | 53 |
| 2002 | 315 | 6 | 2,300 | 43 |
| 2003 | 343 | 7 | 2,341 | 60 |
| 2004 | 310 | 5 | 2,220 | 42 |
| 2005 | 308 | 5 | 2,237 | 36 |
| 2006 | 297 | 5 | 2,087 | 47 |
| 2007 | 293 | 7 | 2,076 | 39 |
| 2008 | 279 | 1 | 2,061 | 31 |
| 2009 | 266 | 3 | 1,947 | 42 |
| ¹ Based on the 2010 parliamentary constituency boundaries |
| Reported personal injury road accidents and fatalities, involving at least one driver or rider aged under 21 years, on the A14 in Suffolk: 1997 to 2009 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (a) Accidents involving | Fatalities in accidents involving | |||
| Drivers¹ aged under 21 | Drivers/riders of other vehicles² aged under 21 | Drivers¹ aged under 21 | Drivers/riders of other vehicles² aged under 21 | |
| 1997 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 1998 | 17 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 1999 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2000 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2001 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2002 | 18 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 2003 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 2004 | 21 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2005 | 19 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 2006 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2007 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2008 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2009 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| ¹ Cars, goods vehicles, bus and coach drivers. | ||||
| ² Includes pedal cycles, motorcycles, other and unknown vehicles. |
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many road traffic accidents have occurred in Suffolk on each day of the week in each year since 1997.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many road traffic accidents have occurred in Suffolk on each day of the week in each year since 1997.
| Reported personal injury road accidents in Suffolk by day of week: 1997 to 2008 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of accidents | ||||||||
| Year of accident | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday | Total |
| 1997 | 308 | 328 | 357 | 323 | 385 | 295 | 228 | 2,224 |
| 1998 | 328 | 337 | 331 | 310 | 374 | 330 | 241 | 2,251 |
| 1999 | 339 | 340 | 327 | 327 | 362 | 314 | 289 | 2,298 |
| 2000 | 309 | 319 | 334 | 355 | 427 | 327 | 241 | 2,312 |
| 2001 | 382 | 348 | 338 | 328 | 386 | 332 | 242 | 2,356 |
| 2002 | 335 | 328 | 314 | 375 | 380 | 321 | 247 | 2,300 |
| 2003 | 356 | 343 | 308 | 356 | 393 | 298 | 287 | 2,341 |
| 2004 | 289 | 310 | 349 | 374 | 353 | 301 | 244 | 2,220 |
| 2005 | 337 | 319 | 361 | 325 | 377 | 283 | 235 | 2,237 |
| 2006 | 313 | 283 | 306 | 313 | 390 | 265 | 217 | 2,087 |
| 2007 | 320 | 330 | 309 | 297 | 341 | 263 | 216 | 2,076 |
| 2008 | 302 | 289 | 346 | 326 | 341 | 236 | 221 | 2,061 |
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many road traffic accidents have occurred on the A14 in Suffolk on each day of the week in each year since 1997.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many road traffic accidents have occurred on the A14 in Suffolk on each day of the week in each year since 1997.
| Reported personal injury road accidents on the A14 in Suffolk by day of week: 1997 to 2008 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of accidents | ||||||||
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday | Total | |
| 1997 | 16 | 19 | 22 | 15 | 16 | 20 | 20 | 128 |
| 1998 | 18 | 16 | 20 | 11 | 22 | 18 | 18 | 123 |
| 1999 | 22 | 20 | 17 | 14 | 17 | 16 | 16 | 122 |
| 2000 | 19 | 27 | 24 | 28 | 14 | 15 | 11 | 138 |
| 2001 | 17 | 17 | 22 | 23 | 21 | 22 | 16 | 138 |
| 2002 | 26 | 28 | 20 | 20 | 27 | 21 | 15 | 157 |
| 2003 | 22 | 22 | 23 | 23 | 14 | 11 | 13 | 128 |
| 2004 | 17 | 20 | 25 | 23 | 21 | 20 | 17 | 143 |
| 2005 | 18 | 23 | 33 | 16 | 28 | 15 | 17 | 150 |
| 2006 | 21 | 22 | 24 | 12 | 20 | 11 | 9 | 119 |
| 2007 | 13 | 23 | 18 | 24 | 21 | 13 | 14 | 126 |
| 2008 | 25 | 15 | 24 | 20 | 25 | 4 | 13 | 126 |
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many road traffic (a) accidents and (b) fatalities there were involving drivers under the age of 21 years in (i) Bury St. Edmunds constituency and (ii) Suffolk in each year since 1997.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many road traffic (a) accidents and (b) fatalities there were involving drivers under the age of 21 years in (i) Bury St. Edmunds constituency and (ii) Suffolk in each year since 1997.
| Reported personal injury road accidents and fatalities, involving at least one driver¹ aged under 21 years: 1997 to 2008 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suffolk | Bury St. Edmunds² | |||
| Accidents | Fatalities | Accidents | Fatalities | |
| 1997 | 379 | 7 | 72 | 2 |
| 1998 | 377 | 3 | 70 | 1 |
| 1999 | 386 | 6 | 47 | 1 |
| 2000 | 375 | 12 | 62 | 2 |
| 2001 | 384 | 8 | 55 | 0 |
| 2002 | 377 | 5 | 48 | 1 |
| 2003 | 398 | 9 | 69 | 0 |
| 2004 | 367 | 7 | 45 | 0 |
| 2005 | 423 | 4 | 71 | 1 |
| 2006 | 367 | 17 | 58 | 0 |
| 2007 | 372 | 5 | 53 | 0 |
| 2008 | 345 | 3 | 45 | 0 |
| ¹ Car, goods vehicle, bus and coach drivers. | ||||
| ² Based on 2004 parliamentary constituency boundaries. |
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many road traffic (a) accidents and (b) fatalities have occurred (i) on the A14 and (ii) elsewhere in Suffolk between the hours of 8pm and 8am in each year since 1997.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many road traffic (a) accidents and (b) fatalities have occurred (i) on the A14 and (ii) elsewhere in Suffolk between the hours of 8pm and 8am in each year since 1997.
| Reported personal injury road accidents¹ and fatalities² occurring between the hours of 20.00 and 08.00: 1997 to 2008 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suffolk (excluding A14) | A14 (Suffolk section) | |||
| Accidents | Fatalities | Accidents | Fatalities | |
| 1997 | 519 | 15 | 29 | 3 |
| 1998 | 526 | 4 | 23 | 1 |
| 1999 | 518 | 22 | 26 | 1 |
| 2000 | 502 | 21 | 33 | 4 |
| 2001 | 553 | 18 | 39 | 5 |
| 2002 | 543 | 19 | 50 | 3 |
| 2003 | 566 | 20 | 36 | 1 |
| 2004 | 518 | 16 | 37 | 3 |
| 2005 | 530 | 19 | 42 | 2 |
| 2006 | 484 | 19 | 37 | 2 |
| 2007 | 480 | 13 | 39 | 3 |
| 2008 | 431 | 13 | 29 | 0 |
| ¹ Reported accidents in which at least one person was injured. | ||||
| ² Casualties in road accidents who were fatally injured. |
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what the accident cluster sites are in the (a) St. Edmundsbury Borough Council and (b) Mid Suffolk District Council area.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what the accident cluster sites are in the (a) St. Edmundsbury Borough Council and (b) Mid Suffolk District Council area.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police vehicles were involved in road accidents which resulted in (a) slight injuries, (b) serious injuries and (c) fatalities in 2007-08.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police vehicles were involved in road accidents which resulted in (a) slight injuries, (b) serious injuries and (c) fatalities in 2007-08.
(3) how many and what percentage of police vehicles involved in accidents while responding to an emergency or otherwise in pursuit were (a) motorway patrol vehicles, (b) armed response vehicles and (c) other police vehicles in each year since 1995.
(3) how many and what percentage of police vehicles involved in accidents while responding to an emergency or otherwise in pursuit were (a) motorway patrol vehicles, (b) armed response vehicles and (c) other police vehicles in each year since 1995.
| Number of road traffic collisions on public roads involving police vehicles by police force area, from 2002-03 to 2006-07 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | ||||||
| RTCs involving police vehicles | RTCs also involving non-police vehicles | RTCs involving police vehicles | RTCs also involving non-police vehicles | RTCs involving police vehicles | RTCs also involving non-police vehicles | RTCs involving police vehicles | RTCs also involving non-police vehicles | RTCs involving police vehicles | RTCs also involving non-police vehicles | |
| Avon and Somerset | 647 | 490 | 618 | 485 | 541 | 409 | 501 | 372 | 508 | 404 |
| Bedfordshire | 196 | 161 | 242 | 208 | 221 | 150 | 243 | 186 | 231 | 180 |
| Cambridgeshire | 217 | 152 | 233 | 139 | 264 | 169 | 154 | 106 | 169 | 0 |
| Cheshire | 167 | 142 | 253 | 220 | 242 | 223 | 152 | 130 | 179 | 161 |
| Cleveland | 142 | 93 | 55 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 216 | 92 | 192 | 72 |
| Cumbria | 186 | 111 | 207 | 127 | 213 | 122 | 177 | 93 | 128 | 82 |
| Derbyshire | 447 | 127 | 452 | 128 | 320 | 146 | 343 | 153 | 328 | 130 |
| Devon and Cornwall | 449 | 308 | 415 | 301 | 450 | 178 | 406 | 166 | 388 | 179 |
| Dorset | 184 | 141 | 198 | 165 | 189 | 161 | 179 | 147 | 197 | ¹— |
| Durham | ¹— | ¹— | 209 | 152 | 175 | 131 | 126 | 93 | 122 | 87 |
| Dyfed-Powys | 204 | 27 | 67 | 20 | 221 | 70 | 176 | 36 | 106 | 36 |
| Essex | 414 | 306 | 345 | 259 | 327 | 245 | 391 | 259 | 607 | 254 |
| Gloucestershire | 203 | 118 | 162 | 104 | 225 | ¹— | 198 | 106 | 205 | ¹— |
| Greater Manchester | 1,038 | 815 | 1,075 | 772 | 925 | 688 | 888 | 656 | 853 | 627 |
| Gwent | 160 | 94 | 219 | 99 | 194 | 109 | 205 | 126 | 75 | 33 |
| Hampshire | 543 | 346 | 627 | 313 | 499 | 284 | 564 | 305 | 570 | 301 |
| Hertfordshire | 344 | 253 | 346 | 246 | 314 | 256 | 343 | 238 | 340 | 242 |
| Humberside | 150 | 92 | 238 | 124 | 204 | 110 | 179 | 96 | 247 | 138 |
| Kent | 732 | 271 | 593 | 244 | 697 | 195 | 564 | 250 | 513 | 194 |
| Lancashire | 510 | 93 | 489 | 91 | 412 | 80 | 422 | 50 | 557 | 99 |
| Leicestershire | 180 | 145 | 194 | 145 | ¹— | ¹— | 184 | 34 | 185 | 47 |
| Lincolnshire | 131 | 85 | 181 | 126 | 179 | 117 | 133 | 26 | 151 | 111 |
| London, City of | 38 | 31 | 107 | 56 | 64 | 41 | 77 | 44 | 147 | 106 |
| Merseyside | 240 | 225 | 297 | 253 | 244 | 211 | 273 | 226 | 270 | 231 |
| Metropolitan Police | 4,910 | 2,590 | 5,284 | 4,401 | 5,318 | 4,448 | 4,666 | 2,750 | 4,333 | 3,518 |
| Norfolk | 231 | 162 | 313 | 167 | 317 | 140 | 290 | 137 | 226 | 137 |
| Northamptonshire | 121 | 107 | 104 | 86 | 139 | 129 | 97 | 79 | 122 | 115 |
| Northumbria | 513 | 360 | 473 | 215 | 504 | 328 | 565 | 398 | 410 | 267 |
| North Wales | 60 | 54 | 80 | 59 | 81 | 68 | 72 | 74 | 74 | 66 |
| North Yorkshire | 397 | 16 | 126 | 18 | 77 | 67 | 32 | 31 | 23 | 17 |
| Nottinghamshire | 316 | 194 | 62 | 51 | 287 | 181 | 595 | 181 | 266 | 172 |
| South Wales | 917 | 202 | 862 | 162 | 0 | 0 | 749 | 172 | 789 | 170 |
| South Yorkshire | 316 | ¹— | 354 | 293 | 380 | 316 | 213 | 112 | 291 | 159 |
| Staffordshire | 306 | 156 | 536 | 178 | 410 | 150 | 568 | 162 | 377 | 111 |
| Suffolk | 119 | 74 | 179 | 84 | 228 | 124 | 178 | 62 | 193 | 97 |
| Surrey | 320 | 124 | 357 | 151 | 432 | 187 | 416 | 147 | 422 | 172 |
| Sussex | 470 | 257 | 256 | 160 | 237 | 139 | 214 | 97 | 260 | 152 |
| Thames Valley | 992 | 256 | 1,057 | 478 | 802 | 506 | 994 | 598 | 824 | 600 |
| Warwickshire | 119 | 64 | 155 | 99 | 123 | 66 | 128 | 68 | 114 | 68 |
| West Mercia | 293 | 183 | 256 | 158 | 254 | 158 | 281 | 163 | 303 | 175 |
| West Midlands | ¹— | ¹— | 1,418 | 765 | 1,488 | 774 | 1,183 | 700 | 1,123 | 600 |
| West Yorkshire | 672 | 540 | 761 | 596 | 783 | 598 | 883 | 547 | 720 | 334 |
| Wiltshire | 50 | 0 | 56 | 0 | 66 | 3 | 62 | 8 | 70 | 2 |
| Number of road traffic collisions during immediate/emergency response and police pursuit by police force area, from 2002-03 to 2006-07 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | ||||
| RTCs from immediate response/pursuit | Those involving injury | RTCs from immediate response/pursuit | Those involving injury | RTCs from immediate response/pursuit | Those involving injury | |
| Avon and Somerset | 242 | 22 | 290 | 328 | 237 | 56 |
| Bedfordshire | 126 | 18 | 156 | 30 | 111 | 24 |
| Cambridgeshire | 103 | 10 | 96 | 10 | 107 | 20 |
| Cheshire | 58 | 18 | 42 | 12 | 88 | 27 |
| Cleveland | 88 | 18 | 28 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Cumbria | 50 | 9 | 34 | 5 | 42 | 6 |
| Derbyshire | 81 | 26 | 71 | 15 | 94 | 28 |
| Devon and Cornwall | 58 | 19 | 66 | 16 | 73 | 9 |
| Dorset | 37 | 9 | 17 | 8 | ¹— | ¹— |
| Durham | ¹— | ¹— | 108 | 28 | 101 | 16 |
| Dyfed-Powys | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Essex | 127 | 23 | 22 | 22 | 21 | 21 |
| Gloucestershire | 57 | 24 | 60 | 5 | 55 | 12 |
| Greater Manchester | 185 | 49 | 198 | 43 | 196 | 62 |
| Gwent | 47 | 7 | 52 | 11 | 39 | 5 |
| Hampshire | 163 | 8 | 90 | 10 | 60 | 7 |
| Hertfordshire | 150 | 40 | 73 | 16 | 152 | 42 |
| Humberside | 53 | 13 | 33 | 11 | 52 | 11 |
| Kent | 198 | 25 | 96 | 80 | 144 | 20 |
| Lancashire | 62 | 17 | 56 | 15 | 53 | 11 |
| Leicestershire | 62 | 18 | 83 | 8 | ¹— | ¹— |
| Lincolnshire | 38 | 8 | 62 | 14 | 60 | 14 |
| London, City of | 7 | 0 | 21 | 2 | 14 | 1 |
| Merseyside | 100 | 39 | 116 | 51 | 75 | 38 |
| Metropolitan Police | 2,292 | 166 | 2,441 | 483 | 2,399 | 468 |
| Norfolk | 41 | 15 | 41 | 19 | 48 | 19 |
| Northamptonshire | 53 | 11 | 55 | 14 | 59 | 17 |
| Northumbria | 198 | 53 | 167 | 42 | 179 | 65 |
| North Wales | 18 | 7 | 16 | 6 | 11 | 19 |
| North Yorkshire | 48 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 6 |
| Nottinghamshire | 127 | 13 | 49 | 49 | 19 | 5 |
| South Wales | 151 | 18 | 124 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| South Yorkshire | 98 | 27 | 95 | 79 | 52 | 21 |
| Staffordshire | 106 | 26 | 98 | 30 | 63 | 8 |
| Suffolk | 37 | 7 | 57 | 14 | 39 | 10 |
| Surrey | 118 | 24 | 104 | 22 | 156 | 26 |
| Sussex | 147 | 42 | 90 | 36 | 76 | 27 |
| Thames Valley | 222 | 97 | 217 | 84 | 321 | 45 |
| Warwickshire | 22 | 5 | 42 | 11 | 37 | 10 |
| West Mercia | 56 | 21 | 49 | 16 | 50 | 20 |
| West Midlands | ¹— | ¹— | 247 | 33 | 243 | 44 |
| West Yorkshire | 258 | 15 | 163 | 7 | 169 | 7 |
| Wiltshire | 17 | 5 | 14 | 4 | 15 | 7 |
| 2005-06 | 2006-07 | |||
| RTCs from immediate response/pursuit | Those involving injury | RTCs from immediate response/pursuit | Those involving injury | |
| Avon and Somerset | 210 | 42 | 209 | ¹— |
| Bedfordshire | 113 | 17 | 98 | 12 |
| Cambridgeshire | 52 | 9 | 73 | 0 |
| Cheshire | 37 | 13 | 48 | 11 |
| Cleveland | 83 | 27 | 100 | 21 |
| Cumbria | 33 | 5 | 32 | 3 |
| Derbyshire | 91 | 6 | 79 | 9 |
| Devon and Cornwall | 85 | 7 | 91 | 12 |
| Dorset | 56 | 15 | 27 | 2 |
| Durham | 52 | 14 | 54 | 13 |
| Dyfed-Powys | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Essex | 67 | 14 | 92 | 22 |
| Gloucestershire | 48 | 6 | 59 | 8 |
| Greater Manchester | 176 | 53 | 157 | 51 |
| Gwent | 49 | 9 | 38 | 5 |
| Hampshire | 94 | 15 | 104 | 10 |
| Hertfordshire | 140 | 25 | 141 | 38 |
| Humberside | 34 | 7 | 72 | 15 |
| Kent | 161 | 20 | 80 | 8 |
| Lancashire | 57 | 16 | 56 | 12 |
| Leicestershire | 82 | 11 | 82 | 16 |
| Lincolnshire | 37 | 14 | 43 | 6 |
| London, City of | 17 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| Merseyside | 113 | 83 | 88 | 27 |
| Metropolitan Police | 1,894 | 284 | 2,030 | 335 |
| Norfolk | 34 | 10 | 56 | 10 |
| Northamptonshire | 41 | 13 | 47 | 11 |
| Northumbria | 188 | 60 | 131 | 43 |
| North Wales | 13 | 1 | 20 | 10 |
| North Yorkshire | 12 | 11 | 14 | 14 |
| Nottinghamshire | 58 | 13 | 55 | 9 |
| South Wales | 137 | 3 | 124 | 1 |
| South Yorkshire | 15 | 5 | 52 | 14 |
| Staffordshire | 68 | 6 | 74 | 17 |
| Suffolk | 14 | 5 | 38 | 10 |
| Surrey | 148 | 23 | 155 | 20 |
| Sussex | 77 | 36 | 6 | 11 |
| Thames Valley | 352 | 89 | 373 | 40 |
| Warwickshire | 42 | 8 | 44 | 8 |
| West Mercia | 57 | 18 | 53 | 15 |
| West Midlands | 236 | 21 | 221 | 12 |
| West Yorkshire | 123 | 24 | 197 | 52 |
| Wiltshire | 16 | 2 | 9 | 3 |
| Number of casualties resulting from those road traffic accidents during immediate/emergency response by police force area, from 2002-03 to 2006-07 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | |||||||
| Fatal injury | Serious injury | Other injury | Fatal injury | Serious injury | Other injury | Fatal injury | Serious injury | Other injury | |
| Avon and Somerset | 2 | 7 | 53 | 2 | 6 | 74 | 0 | 9 | 52 |
| Bedfordshire | 0 | 2 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 56 | 1 | 1 | 27 |
| Cambridgeshire | 0 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 26 |
| Cheshire | 0 | 2 | 27 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 0 | 7 | 29 |
| Cleveland | 0 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cumbria | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Derbyshire | 0 | 0 | 38 | 0 | 1 | 25 | 1 | 0 | 35 |
| Devon and Cornwall | 0 | 1 | 26 | 1 | 1 | 64 | 0 | 0 | 18 |
| Dorset | 0 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 9 | ¹— | ¹— | ¹— |
| Durham | 0 | 1 | 41 | 2 | 1 | 36 | 0 | 1 | 26 |
| Dyfed-Powys | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Essex | 0 | 2 | 32 | 2 | 3 | 36 | 1 | 3 | 35 |
| Gloucestershire | 0 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| Greater Manchester | 4 | 5 | 74 | 6 | 9 | 56 | 4 | 2 | 106 |
| Gwent | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Hampshire | 1 | 7 | 29 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Hertfordshire | 0 | 6 | 59 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 0 | 5 | 61 |
| Humberside | 0 | 4 | 19 | 0 | 1 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 18 |
| Kent | 0 | 2 | 48 | 0 | 7 | 73 | 0 | 2 | 23 |
| Lancashire | 0 | 1 | 31 | 0 | 2 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 19 |
| Leicestershire | 1 | 2 | 15 | 0 | 2 | 16 | ¹— | ¹— | ¹— |
| Lincolnshire | 0 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 18 | 2 | 2 | 12 |
| London, City of | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Merseyside | 3 | 3 | 62 | 3 | 6 | 75 | 0 | 3 | 58 |
| Metropolitan Police | 5 | 14 | ¹— | 4 | 21 | 600 | 4 | 23 | 724 |
| Norfolk | 1 | 1 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 28 | 0 | 6 | 26 |
| Northamptonshire | 0 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 6 | 19 | 0 | 4 | 22 |
| Northumbria | 0 | 3 | 62 | 0 | 3 | 70 | 3 | 13 | 94 |
| North Wales | 0 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| North Yorkshire | ¹— | ¹— | ¹— | 0 | 2 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| Nottinghamshire | 2 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 8 | 57 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| South Wales | 0 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| South Yorkshire | 0 | 3 | 24 | 0 | 12 | 67 | 2 | 10 | 83 |
| Staffordshire | 0 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 1 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Suffolk | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 8 |
| Surrey | 0 | 2 | 40 | 1 | 2 | 33 | 0 | 1 | 31 |
| Sussex | 0 | 7 | 45 | 0 | 6 | 27 | 2 | 0 | 31 |
| Thames Valley | 3 | 13 | 115 | 2 | 11 | 122 | 0 | 6 | 71 |
| Warwickshire | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| West Mercia | 0 | 4 | 30 | 0 | 2 | 22 | 0 | 4 | 32 |
| West Midlands | 1 | 1 | 61 | 2 | 2 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 44 |
| West Yorkshire | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| Wiltshire | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| 2005-06 | 2006-07 | |||||
| Fatal injury | Serious injury | Other injury | Fatal injury | Serious injury | Other injury | |
| Avon and Somerset | 2 | 3 | 68 | 0 | 8 | 42 |
| Bedfordshire | 0 | 0 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 11 |
| Cambridgeshire | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cheshire | 0 | 5 | 30 | 0 | 2 | 18 |
| Cleveland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 |
| Cumbria | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Derbyshire | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
| Devon and Cornwall | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 20 |
| Dorset | 1 | 1 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| Durham | 0 | 2 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 21 |
| Dyfed-Powys | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Essex | 1 | 4 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 22 |
| Gloucestershire | 0 | 0 | 6 | ¹— | ¹— | ¹— |
| Greater Manchester | 1 | 3 | 91 | 6 | 6 | 64 |
| Gwent | 0 | 1 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Hampshire | 1 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 |
| Hertfordshire | 2 | 3 | 45 | 0 | 11 | 48 |
| Humberside | 0 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 19 |
| Kent | 1 | 1 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| Lancashire | 0 | 0 | 28 | 0 | 2 | 32 |
| Leicestershire | 0 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 15 |
| Lincolnshire | 0 | 1 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| London, City of | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Merseyside | 3 | 3 | 136 | 1 | 4 | 88 |
| Metropolitan Police | 4 | 33 | 584 | 4 | 26 | 496 |
| Norfolk | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Northamptonshire | 0 | 1 | 18 | 1 | 7 | 13 |
| Northumbria | 1 | 5 | 84 | 1 | 5 | 64 |
| North Wales | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 24 |
| North Yorkshire | 0 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 11 | 16 |
| Nottinghamshire | ¹— | ¹— | ¹— | ¹— | ¹— | ¹— |
| South Wales | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| South Yorkshire | 0 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 33 | 35 |
| Staffordshire | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 17 |
| Suffolk | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
| Surrey | 0 | 1 | 31 | 0 | 2 | 24 |
| Sussex | 5 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 43 |
| Thames Valley | 0 | 2 | 127 | 3 | 6 | 56 |
| Warwickshire | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| West Mercia | 0 | 2 | 26 | 0 | 1 | 23 |
| West Midlands | 0 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| West Yorkshire | 0 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 52 |
| Wiltshire | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| ¹ Data are not available. |
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many accidents involving police (a) pursuit and (b) patrol cars and drivers and members of the public resulting in serious injuries or death there were in each of the last five years;
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many accidents involving police (a) pursuit and (b) patrol cars and drivers and members of the public resulting in serious injuries or death there were in each of the last five years;
| Number of road traffic collisions on public roads involving police vehicles by police force area, from 2002-03 to 2006-07 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | ||||||
| RTCs involving police vehicles | RTCs also involving non-police vehicles | RTCs involving police vehicles | RTCs also involving non-police vehicles | RTCs involving police vehicles | RTCs also involving non-police vehicles | RTCs involving police vehicles | RTCs also involving non-police vehicles | RTCs involving police vehicles | RTCs also involving non-police vehicles | |
| Avon and Somerset | 647 | 490 | 618 | 485 | 541 | 409 | 501 | 372 | 508 | 404 |
| Bedfordshire | 196 | 161 | 242 | 208 | 221 | 150 | 243 | 186 | 231 | 180 |
| Cambridgeshire | 217 | 152 | 233 | 139 | 264 | 169 | 154 | 106 | 169 | 0 |
| Cheshire | 167 | 142 | 253 | 220 | 242 | 223 | 152 | 130 | 179 | 161 |
| Cleveland | 142 | 93 | 55 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 216 | 92 | 192 | 72 |
| Cumbria | 186 | 111 | 207 | 127 | 213 | 122 | 177 | 93 | 128 | 82 |
| Derbyshire | 447 | 127 | 452 | 128 | 320 | 146 | 343 | 153 | 328 | 130 |
| Devon and Cornwall | 449 | 308 | 415 | 301 | 450 | 178 | 406 | 166 | 388 | 179 |
| Dorset | 184 | 141 | 198 | 165 | 189 | 161 | 179 | 147 | 197 | ¹— |
| Durham | ¹— | ¹— | 209 | 152 | 175 | 131 | 126 | 93 | 122 | 87 |
| Dyfed-Powys | 204 | 27 | 67 | 20 | 221 | 70 | 176 | 36 | 106 | 36 |
| Essex | 414 | 306 | 345 | 259 | 327 | 245 | 391 | 259 | 607 | 254 |
| Gloucestershire | 203 | 118 | 162 | 104 | 225 | ¹— | 198 | 106 | 205 | ¹— |
| Greater Manchester | 1,038 | 815 | 1,075 | 772 | 925 | 688 | 888 | 656 | 853 | 627 |
| Gwent | 160 | 94 | 219 | 99 | 194 | 109 | 205 | 126 | 75 | 33 |
| Hampshire | 543 | 346 | 627 | 313 | 499 | 284 | 564 | 305 | 570 | 301 |
| Hertfordshire | 344 | 253 | 346 | 246 | 314 | 256 | 343 | 238 | 340 | 242 |
| Humberside | 150 | 92 | 238 | 124 | 204 | 110 | 179 | 96 | 247 | 138 |
| Kent | 732 | 271 | 593 | 244 | 697 | 195 | 564 | 250 | 513 | 194 |
| Lancashire | 510 | 93 | 489 | 91 | 412 | 80 | 422 | 50 | 557 | 99 |
| Leicestershire | 180 | 145 | 194 | 145 | ¹— | ¹— | 184 | 34 | 185 | 47 |
| Lincolnshire | 131 | 85 | 181 | 126 | 179 | 117 | 133 | 26 | 151 | 111 |
| London, City of | 38 | 31 | 107 | 56 | 64 | 41 | 77 | 44 | 147 | 106 |
| Merseyside | 240 | 225 | 297 | 253 | 244 | 211 | 273 | 226 | 270 | 231 |
| Metropolitan Police | 4,910 | 2,590 | 5,284 | 4,401 | 5,318 | 4,448 | 4,666 | 2,750 | 4,333 | 3,518 |
| Norfolk | 231 | 162 | 313 | 167 | 317 | 140 | 290 | 137 | 226 | 137 |
| Northamptonshire | 121 | 107 | 104 | 86 | 139 | 129 | 97 | 79 | 122 | 115 |
| Northumbria | 513 | 360 | 473 | 215 | 504 | 328 | 565 | 398 | 410 | 267 |
| North Wales | 60 | 54 | 80 | 59 | 81 | 68 | 72 | 74 | 74 | 66 |
| North Yorkshire | 397 | 16 | 126 | 18 | 77 | 67 | 32 | 31 | 23 | 17 |
| Nottinghamshire | 316 | 194 | 62 | 51 | 287 | 181 | 595 | 181 | 266 | 172 |
| South Wales | 917 | 202 | 862 | 162 | 0 | 0 | 749 | 172 | 789 | 170 |
| South Yorkshire | 316 | ¹— | 354 | 293 | 380 | 316 | 213 | 112 | 291 | 159 |
| Staffordshire | 306 | 156 | 536 | 178 | 410 | 150 | 568 | 162 | 377 | 111 |
| Suffolk | 119 | 74 | 179 | 84 | 228 | 124 | 178 | 62 | 193 | 97 |
| Surrey | 320 | 124 | 357 | 151 | 432 | 187 | 416 | 147 | 422 | 172 |
| Sussex | 470 | 257 | 256 | 160 | 237 | 139 | 214 | 97 | 260 | 152 |
| Thames Valley | 992 | 256 | 1,057 | 478 | 802 | 506 | 994 | 598 | 824 | 600 |
| Warwickshire | 119 | 64 | 155 | 99 | 123 | 66 | 128 | 68 | 114 | 68 |
| West Mercia | 293 | 183 | 256 | 158 | 254 | 158 | 281 | 163 | 303 | 175 |
| West Midlands | ¹— | ¹— | 1,418 | 765 | 1,488 | 774 | 1,183 | 700 | 1,123 | 600 |
| West Yorkshire | 672 | 540 | 761 | 596 | 783 | 598 | 883 | 547 | 720 | 334 |
| Wiltshire | 50 | 0 | 56 | 0 | 66 | 3 | 62 | 8 | 70 | 2 |
| Number of road traffic collisions during immediate/emergency response and police pursuit by police force area, from 2002-03 to 2006-07 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | ||||
| RTCs from immediate response/pursuit | Those involving injury | RTCs from immediate response/pursuit | Those involving injury | RTCs from immediate response/pursuit | Those involving injury | |
| Avon and Somerset | 242 | 22 | 290 | 328 | 237 | 56 |
| Bedfordshire | 126 | 18 | 156 | 30 | 111 | 24 |
| Cambridgeshire | 103 | 10 | 96 | 10 | 107 | 20 |
| Cheshire | 58 | 18 | 42 | 12 | 88 | 27 |
| Cleveland | 88 | 18 | 28 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Cumbria | 50 | 9 | 34 | 5 | 42 | 6 |
| Derbyshire | 81 | 26 | 71 | 15 | 94 | 28 |
| Devon and Cornwall | 58 | 19 | 66 | 16 | 73 | 9 |
| Dorset | 37 | 9 | 17 | 8 | ¹— | ¹— |
| Durham | ¹— | ¹— | 108 | 28 | 101 | 16 |
| Dyfed-Powys | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Essex | 127 | 23 | 22 | 22 | 21 | 21 |
| Gloucestershire | 57 | 24 | 60 | 5 | 55 | 12 |
| Greater Manchester | 185 | 49 | 198 | 43 | 196 | 62 |
| Gwent | 47 | 7 | 52 | 11 | 39 | 5 |
| Hampshire | 163 | 8 | 90 | 10 | 60 | 7 |
| Hertfordshire | 150 | 40 | 73 | 16 | 152 | 42 |
| Humberside | 53 | 13 | 33 | 11 | 52 | 11 |
| Kent | 198 | 25 | 96 | 80 | 144 | 20 |
| Lancashire | 62 | 17 | 56 | 15 | 53 | 11 |
| Leicestershire | 62 | 18 | 83 | 8 | ¹— | ¹— |
| Lincolnshire | 38 | 8 | 62 | 14 | 60 | 14 |
| London, City of | 7 | 0 | 21 | 2 | 14 | 1 |
| Merseyside | 100 | 39 | 116 | 51 | 75 | 38 |
| Metropolitan Police | 2,292 | 166 | 2,441 | 483 | 2,399 | 468 |
| Norfolk | 41 | 15 | 41 | 19 | 48 | 19 |
| Northamptonshire | 53 | 11 | 55 | 14 | 59 | 17 |
| Northumbria | 198 | 53 | 167 | 42 | 179 | 65 |
| North Wales | 18 | 7 | 16 | 6 | 11 | 19 |
| North Yorkshire | 48 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 6 |
| Nottinghamshire | 127 | 13 | 49 | 49 | 19 | 5 |
| South Wales | 151 | 18 | 124 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| South Yorkshire | 98 | 27 | 95 | 79 | 52 | 21 |
| Staffordshire | 106 | 26 | 98 | 30 | 63 | 8 |
| Suffolk | 37 | 7 | 57 | 14 | 39 | 10 |
| Surrey | 118 | 24 | 104 | 22 | 156 | 26 |
| Sussex | 147 | 42 | 90 | 36 | 76 | 27 |
| Thames Valley | 222 | 97 | 217 | 84 | 321 | 45 |
| Warwickshire | 22 | 5 | 42 | 11 | 37 | 10 |
| West Mercia | 56 | 21 | 49 | 16 | 50 | 20 |
| West Midlands | ¹— | ¹— | 247 | 33 | 243 | 44 |
| West Yorkshire | 258 | 15 | 163 | 7 | 169 | 7 |
| Wiltshire | 17 | 5 | 14 | 4 | 15 | 7 |
| 2005-06 | 2006-07 | |||
| RTCs from immediate response/pursuit | Those involving injury | RTCs from immediate response/pursuit | Those involving injury | |
| Avon and Somerset | 210 | 42 | 209 | ¹— |
| Bedfordshire | 113 | 17 | 98 | 12 |
| Cambridgeshire | 52 | 9 | 73 | 0 |
| Cheshire | 37 | 13 | 48 | 11 |
| Cleveland | 83 | 27 | 100 | 21 |
| Cumbria | 33 | 5 | 32 | 3 |
| Derbyshire | 91 | 6 | 79 | 9 |
| Devon and Cornwall | 85 | 7 | 91 | 12 |
| Dorset | 56 | 15 | 27 | 2 |
| Durham | 52 | 14 | 54 | 13 |
| Dyfed-Powys | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Essex | 67 | 14 | 92 | 22 |
| Gloucestershire | 48 | 6 | 59 | 8 |
| Greater Manchester | 176 | 53 | 157 | 51 |
| Gwent | 49 | 9 | 38 | 5 |
| Hampshire | 94 | 15 | 104 | 10 |
| Hertfordshire | 140 | 25 | 141 | 38 |
| Humberside | 34 | 7 | 72 | 15 |
| Kent | 161 | 20 | 80 | 8 |
| Lancashire | 57 | 16 | 56 | 12 |
| Leicestershire | 82 | 11 | 82 | 16 |
| Lincolnshire | 37 | 14 | 43 | 6 |
| London, City of | 17 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| Merseyside | 113 | 83 | 88 | 27 |
| Metropolitan Police | 1,894 | 284 | 2,030 | 335 |
| Norfolk | 34 | 10 | 56 | 10 |
| Northamptonshire | 41 | 13 | 47 | 11 |
| Northumbria | 188 | 60 | 131 | 43 |
| North Wales | 13 | 1 | 20 | 10 |
| North Yorkshire | 12 | 11 | 14 | 14 |
| Nottinghamshire | 58 | 13 | 55 | 9 |
| South Wales | 137 | 3 | 124 | 1 |
| South Yorkshire | 15 | 5 | 52 | 14 |
| Staffordshire | 68 | 6 | 74 | 17 |
| Suffolk | 14 | 5 | 38 | 10 |
| Surrey | 148 | 23 | 155 | 20 |
| Sussex | 77 | 36 | 6 | 11 |
| Thames Valley | 352 | 89 | 373 | 40 |
| Warwickshire | 42 | 8 | 44 | 8 |
| West Mercia | 57 | 18 | 53 | 15 |
| West Midlands | 236 | 21 | 221 | 12 |
| West Yorkshire | 123 | 24 | 197 | 52 |
| Wiltshire | 16 | 2 | 9 | 3 |
| Number of casualties resulting from those road traffic accidents during immediate/emergency response by police force area, from 2002-03 to 2006-07 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | |||||||
| Fatal injury | Serious injury | Other injury | Fatal injury | Serious injury | Other injury | Fatal injury | Serious injury | Other injury | |
| Avon and Somerset | 2 | 7 | 53 | 2 | 6 | 74 | 0 | 9 | 52 |
| Bedfordshire | 0 | 2 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 56 | 1 | 1 | 27 |
| Cambridgeshire | 0 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 26 |
| Cheshire | 0 | 2 | 27 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 0 | 7 | 29 |
| Cleveland | 0 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cumbria | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Derbyshire | 0 | 0 | 38 | 0 | 1 | 25 | 1 | 0 | 35 |
| Devon and Cornwall | 0 | 1 | 26 | 1 | 1 | 64 | 0 | 0 | 18 |
| Dorset | 0 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 9 | ¹— | ¹— | ¹— |
| Durham | 0 | 1 | 41 | 2 | 1 | 36 | 0 | 1 | 26 |
| Dyfed-Powys | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Essex | 0 | 2 | 32 | 2 | 3 | 36 | 1 | 3 | 35 |
| Gloucestershire | 0 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| Greater Manchester | 4 | 5 | 74 | 6 | 9 | 56 | 4 | 2 | 106 |
| Gwent | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Hampshire | 1 | 7 | 29 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Hertfordshire | 0 | 6 | 59 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 0 | 5 | 61 |
| Humberside | 0 | 4 | 19 | 0 | 1 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 18 |
| Kent | 0 | 2 | 48 | 0 | 7 | 73 | 0 | 2 | 23 |
| Lancashire | 0 | 1 | 31 | 0 | 2 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 19 |
| Leicestershire | 1 | 2 | 15 | 0 | 2 | 16 | ¹— | ¹— | ¹— |
| Lincolnshire | 0 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 18 | 2 | 2 | 12 |
| London, City of | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Merseyside | 3 | 3 | 62 | 3 | 6 | 75 | 0 | 3 | 58 |
| Metropolitan Police | 5 | 14 | ¹— | 4 | 21 | 600 | 4 | 23 | 724 |
| Norfolk | 1 | 1 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 28 | 0 | 6 | 26 |
| Northamptonshire | 0 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 6 | 19 | 0 | 4 | 22 |
| Northumbria | 0 | 3 | 62 | 0 | 3 | 70 | 3 | 13 | 94 |
| North Wales | 0 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| North Yorkshire | ¹— | ¹— | ¹— | 0 | 2 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| Nottinghamshire | 2 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 8 | 57 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| South Wales | 0 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| South Yorkshire | 0 | 3 | 24 | 0 | 12 | 67 | 2 | 10 | 83 |
| Staffordshire | 0 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 1 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Suffolk | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 8 |
| Surrey | 0 | 2 | 40 | 1 | 2 | 33 | 0 | 1 | 31 |
| Sussex | 0 | 7 | 45 | 0 | 6 | 27 | 2 | 0 | 31 |
| Thames Valley | 3 | 13 | 115 | 2 | 11 | 122 | 0 | 6 | 71 |
| Warwickshire | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| West Mercia | 0 | 4 | 30 | 0 | 2 | 22 | 0 | 4 | 32 |
| West Midlands | 1 | 1 | 61 | 2 | 2 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 44 |
| West Yorkshire | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| Wiltshire | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| 2005-06 | 2006-07 | |||||
| Fatal injury | Serious injury | Other injury | Fatal injury | Serious injury | Other injury | |
| Avon and Somerset | 2 | 3 | 68 | 0 | 8 | 42 |
| Bedfordshire | 0 | 0 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 11 |
| Cambridgeshire | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cheshire | 0 | 5 | 30 | 0 | 2 | 18 |
| Cleveland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 |
| Cumbria | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Derbyshire | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
| Devon and Cornwall | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 20 |
| Dorset | 1 | 1 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| Durham | 0 | 2 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 21 |
| Dyfed-Powys | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Essex | 1 | 4 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 22 |
| Gloucestershire | 0 | 0 | 6 | ¹— | ¹— | ¹— |
| Greater Manchester | 1 | 3 | 91 | 6 | 6 | 64 |
| Gwent | 0 | 1 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Hampshire | 1 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 |
| Hertfordshire | 2 | 3 | 45 | 0 | 11 | 48 |
| Humberside | 0 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 19 |
| Kent | 1 | 1 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| Lancashire | 0 | 0 | 28 | 0 | 2 | 32 |
| Leicestershire | 0 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 15 |
| Lincolnshire | 0 | 1 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| London, City of | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Merseyside | 3 | 3 | 136 | 1 | 4 | 88 |
| Metropolitan Police | 4 | 33 | 584 | 4 | 26 | 496 |
| Norfolk | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Northamptonshire | 0 | 1 | 18 | 1 | 7 | 13 |
| Northumbria | 1 | 5 | 84 | 1 | 5 | 64 |
| North Wales | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 24 |
| North Yorkshire | 0 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 11 | 16 |
| Nottinghamshire | ¹— | ¹— | ¹— | ¹— | ¹— | ¹— |
| South Wales | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| South Yorkshire | 0 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 33 | 35 |
| Staffordshire | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 17 |
| Suffolk | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
| Surrey | 0 | 1 | 31 | 0 | 2 | 24 |
| Sussex | 5 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 43 |
| Thames Valley | 0 | 2 | 127 | 3 | 6 | 56 |
| Warwickshire | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| West Mercia | 0 | 2 | 26 | 0 | 1 | 23 |
| West Midlands | 0 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| West Yorkshire | 0 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 52 |
| Wiltshire | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| ¹ Data are not available. |
(2) how many police vehicles were involved in road accidents resulting in (a) slight injuries, (b) serious injuries and (c) fatalities in the last five years;
(2) how many police vehicles were involved in road accidents resulting in (a) slight injuries, (b) serious injuries and (c) fatalities in the last five years;
| Number of road traffic collisions on public roads involving police vehicles by police force area, from 2002-03 to 2006-07 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | ||||||
| RTCs involving police vehicles | RTCs also involving non-police vehicles | RTCs involving police vehicles | RTCs also involving non-police vehicles | RTCs involving police vehicles | RTCs also involving non-police vehicles | RTCs involving police vehicles | RTCs also involving non-police vehicles | RTCs involving police vehicles | RTCs also involving non-police vehicles | |
| Avon and Somerset | 647 | 490 | 618 | 485 | 541 | 409 | 501 | 372 | 508 | 404 |
| Bedfordshire | 196 | 161 | 242 | 208 | 221 | 150 | 243 | 186 | 231 | 180 |
| Cambridgeshire | 217 | 152 | 233 | 139 | 264 | 169 | 154 | 106 | 169 | 0 |
| Cheshire | 167 | 142 | 253 | 220 | 242 | 223 | 152 | 130 | 179 | 161 |
| Cleveland | 142 | 93 | 55 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 216 | 92 | 192 | 72 |
| Cumbria | 186 | 111 | 207 | 127 | 213 | 122 | 177 | 93 | 128 | 82 |
| Derbyshire | 447 | 127 | 452 | 128 | 320 | 146 | 343 | 153 | 328 | 130 |
| Devon and Cornwall | 449 | 308 | 415 | 301 | 450 | 178 | 406 | 166 | 388 | 179 |
| Dorset | 184 | 141 | 198 | 165 | 189 | 161 | 179 | 147 | 197 | ¹— |
| Durham | ¹— | ¹— | 209 | 152 | 175 | 131 | 126 | 93 | 122 | 87 |
| Dyfed-Powys | 204 | 27 | 67 | 20 | 221 | 70 | 176 | 36 | 106 | 36 |
| Essex | 414 | 306 | 345 | 259 | 327 | 245 | 391 | 259 | 607 | 254 |
| Gloucestershire | 203 | 118 | 162 | 104 | 225 | ¹— | 198 | 106 | 205 | ¹— |
| Greater Manchester | 1,038 | 815 | 1,075 | 772 | 925 | 688 | 888 | 656 | 853 | 627 |
| Gwent | 160 | 94 | 219 | 99 | 194 | 109 | 205 | 126 | 75 | 33 |
| Hampshire | 543 | 346 | 627 | 313 | 499 | 284 | 564 | 305 | 570 | 301 |
| Hertfordshire | 344 | 253 | 346 | 246 | 314 | 256 | 343 | 238 | 340 | 242 |
| Humberside | 150 | 92 | 238 | 124 | 204 | 110 | 179 | 96 | 247 | 138 |
| Kent | 732 | 271 | 593 | 244 | 697 | 195 | 564 | 250 | 513 | 194 |
| Lancashire | 510 | 93 | 489 | 91 | 412 | 80 | 422 | 50 | 557 | 99 |
| Leicestershire | 180 | 145 | 194 | 145 | ¹— | ¹— | 184 | 34 | 185 | 47 |
| Lincolnshire | 131 | 85 | 181 | 126 | 179 | 117 | 133 | 26 | 151 | 111 |
| London, City of | 38 | 31 | 107 | 56 | 64 | 41 | 77 | 44 | 147 | 106 |
| Merseyside | 240 | 225 | 297 | 253 | 244 | 211 | 273 | 226 | 270 | 231 |
| Metropolitan Police | 4,910 | 2,590 | 5,284 | 4,401 | 5,318 | 4,448 | 4,666 | 2,750 | 4,333 | 3,518 |
| Norfolk | 231 | 162 | 313 | 167 | 317 | 140 | 290 | 137 | 226 | 137 |
| Northamptonshire | 121 | 107 | 104 | 86 | 139 | 129 | 97 | 79 | 122 | 115 |
| Northumbria | 513 | 360 | 473 | 215 | 504 | 328 | 565 | 398 | 410 | 267 |
| North Wales | 60 | 54 | 80 | 59 | 81 | 68 | 72 | 74 | 74 | 66 |
| North Yorkshire | 397 | 16 | 126 | 18 | 77 | 67 | 32 | 31 | 23 | 17 |
| Nottinghamshire | 316 | 194 | 62 | 51 | 287 | 181 | 595 | 181 | 266 | 172 |
| South Wales | 917 | 202 | 862 | 162 | 0 | 0 | 749 | 172 | 789 | 170 |
| South Yorkshire | 316 | ¹— | 354 | 293 | 380 | 316 | 213 | 112 | 291 | 159 |
| Staffordshire | 306 | 156 | 536 | 178 | 410 | 150 | 568 | 162 | 377 | 111 |
| Suffolk | 119 | 74 | 179 | 84 | 228 | 124 | 178 | 62 | 193 | 97 |
| Surrey | 320 | 124 | 357 | 151 | 432 | 187 | 416 | 147 | 422 | 172 |
| Sussex | 470 | 257 | 256 | 160 | 237 | 139 | 214 | 97 | 260 | 152 |
| Thames Valley | 992 | 256 | 1,057 | 478 | 802 | 506 | 994 | 598 | 824 | 600 |
| Warwickshire | 119 | 64 | 155 | 99 | 123 | 66 | 128 | 68 | 114 | 68 |
| West Mercia | 293 | 183 | 256 | 158 | 254 | 158 | 281 | 163 | 303 | 175 |
| West Midlands | ¹— | ¹— | 1,418 | 765 | 1,488 | 774 | 1,183 | 700 | 1,123 | 600 |
| West Yorkshire | 672 | 540 | 761 | 596 | 783 | 598 | 883 | 547 | 720 | 334 |
| Wiltshire | 50 | 0 | 56 | 0 | 66 | 3 | 62 | 8 | 70 | 2 |
| Number of road traffic collisions during immediate/emergency response and police pursuit by police force area, from 2002-03 to 2006-07 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | ||||
| RTCs from immediate response/pursuit | Those involving injury | RTCs from immediate response/pursuit | Those involving injury | RTCs from immediate response/pursuit | Those involving injury | |
| Avon and Somerset | 242 | 22 | 290 | 328 | 237 | 56 |
| Bedfordshire | 126 | 18 | 156 | 30 | 111 | 24 |
| Cambridgeshire | 103 | 10 | 96 | 10 | 107 | 20 |
| Cheshire | 58 | 18 | 42 | 12 | 88 | 27 |
| Cleveland | 88 | 18 | 28 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Cumbria | 50 | 9 | 34 | 5 | 42 | 6 |
| Derbyshire | 81 | 26 | 71 | 15 | 94 | 28 |
| Devon and Cornwall | 58 | 19 | 66 | 16 | 73 | 9 |
| Dorset | 37 | 9 | 17 | 8 | ¹— | ¹— |
| Durham | ¹— | ¹— | 108 | 28 | 101 | 16 |
| Dyfed-Powys | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Essex | 127 | 23 | 22 | 22 | 21 | 21 |
| Gloucestershire | 57 | 24 | 60 | 5 | 55 | 12 |
| Greater Manchester | 185 | 49 | 198 | 43 | 196 | 62 |
| Gwent | 47 | 7 | 52 | 11 | 39 | 5 |
| Hampshire | 163 | 8 | 90 | 10 | 60 | 7 |
| Hertfordshire | 150 | 40 | 73 | 16 | 152 | 42 |
| Humberside | 53 | 13 | 33 | 11 | 52 | 11 |
| Kent | 198 | 25 | 96 | 80 | 144 | 20 |
| Lancashire | 62 | 17 | 56 | 15 | 53 | 11 |
| Leicestershire | 62 | 18 | 83 | 8 | ¹— | ¹— |
| Lincolnshire | 38 | 8 | 62 | 14 | 60 | 14 |
| London, City of | 7 | 0 | 21 | 2 | 14 | 1 |
| Merseyside | 100 | 39 | 116 | 51 | 75 | 38 |
| Metropolitan Police | 2,292 | 166 | 2,441 | 483 | 2,399 | 468 |
| Norfolk | 41 | 15 | 41 | 19 | 48 | 19 |
| Northamptonshire | 53 | 11 | 55 | 14 | 59 | 17 |
| Northumbria | 198 | 53 | 167 | 42 | 179 | 65 |
| North Wales | 18 | 7 | 16 | 6 | 11 | 19 |
| North Yorkshire | 48 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 6 |
| Nottinghamshire | 127 | 13 | 49 | 49 | 19 | 5 |
| South Wales | 151 | 18 | 124 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| South Yorkshire | 98 | 27 | 95 | 79 | 52 | 21 |
| Staffordshire | 106 | 26 | 98 | 30 | 63 | 8 |
| Suffolk | 37 | 7 | 57 | 14 | 39 | 10 |
| Surrey | 118 | 24 | 104 | 22 | 156 | 26 |
| Sussex | 147 | 42 | 90 | 36 | 76 | 27 |
| Thames Valley | 222 | 97 | 217 | 84 | 321 | 45 |
| Warwickshire | 22 | 5 | 42 | 11 | 37 | 10 |
| West Mercia | 56 | 21 | 49 | 16 | 50 | 20 |
| West Midlands | ¹— | ¹— | 247 | 33 | 243 | 44 |
| West Yorkshire | 258 | 15 | 163 | 7 | 169 | 7 |
| Wiltshire | 17 | 5 | 14 | 4 | 15 | 7 |
| 2005-06 | 2006-07 | |||
| RTCs from immediate response/pursuit | Those involving injury | RTCs from immediate response/pursuit | Those involving injury | |
| Avon and Somerset | 210 | 42 | 209 | ¹— |
| Bedfordshire | 113 | 17 | 98 | 12 |
| Cambridgeshire | 52 | 9 | 73 | 0 |
| Cheshire | 37 | 13 | 48 | 11 |
| Cleveland | 83 | 27 | 100 | 21 |
| Cumbria | 33 | 5 | 32 | 3 |
| Derbyshire | 91 | 6 | 79 | 9 |
| Devon and Cornwall | 85 | 7 | 91 | 12 |
| Dorset | 56 | 15 | 27 | 2 |
| Durham | 52 | 14 | 54 | 13 |
| Dyfed-Powys | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Essex | 67 | 14 | 92 | 22 |
| Gloucestershire | 48 | 6 | 59 | 8 |
| Greater Manchester | 176 | 53 | 157 | 51 |
| Gwent | 49 | 9 | 38 | 5 |
| Hampshire | 94 | 15 | 104 | 10 |
| Hertfordshire | 140 | 25 | 141 | 38 |
| Humberside | 34 | 7 | 72 | 15 |
| Kent | 161 | 20 | 80 | 8 |
| Lancashire | 57 | 16 | 56 | 12 |
| Leicestershire | 82 | 11 | 82 | 16 |
| Lincolnshire | 37 | 14 | 43 | 6 |
| London, City of | 17 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| Merseyside | 113 | 83 | 88 | 27 |
| Metropolitan Police | 1,894 | 284 | 2,030 | 335 |
| Norfolk | 34 | 10 | 56 | 10 |
| Northamptonshire | 41 | 13 | 47 | 11 |
| Northumbria | 188 | 60 | 131 | 43 |
| North Wales | 13 | 1 | 20 | 10 |
| North Yorkshire | 12 | 11 | 14 | 14 |
| Nottinghamshire | 58 | 13 | 55 | 9 |
| South Wales | 137 | 3 | 124 | 1 |
| South Yorkshire | 15 | 5 | 52 | 14 |
| Staffordshire | 68 | 6 | 74 | 17 |
| Suffolk | 14 | 5 | 38 | 10 |
| Surrey | 148 | 23 | 155 | 20 |
| Sussex | 77 | 36 | 6 | 11 |
| Thames Valley | 352 | 89 | 373 | 40 |
| Warwickshire | 42 | 8 | 44 | 8 |
| West Mercia | 57 | 18 | 53 | 15 |
| West Midlands | 236 | 21 | 221 | 12 |
| West Yorkshire | 123 | 24 | 197 | 52 |
| Wiltshire | 16 | 2 | 9 | 3 |
| Number of casualties resulting from those road traffic accidents during immediate/emergency response by police force area, from 2002-03 to 2006-07 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | |||||||
| Fatal injury | Serious injury | Other injury | Fatal injury | Serious injury | Other injury | Fatal injury | Serious injury | Other injury | |
| Avon and Somerset | 2 | 7 | 53 | 2 | 6 | 74 | 0 | 9 | 52 |
| Bedfordshire | 0 | 2 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 56 | 1 | 1 | 27 |
| Cambridgeshire | 0 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 26 |
| Cheshire | 0 | 2 | 27 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 0 | 7 | 29 |
| Cleveland | 0 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cumbria | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Derbyshire | 0 | 0 | 38 | 0 | 1 | 25 | 1 | 0 | 35 |
| Devon and Cornwall | 0 | 1 | 26 | 1 | 1 | 64 | 0 | 0 | 18 |
| Dorset | 0 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 9 | ¹— | ¹— | ¹— |
| Durham | 0 | 1 | 41 | 2 | 1 | 36 | 0 | 1 | 26 |
| Dyfed-Powys | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Essex | 0 | 2 | 32 | 2 | 3 | 36 | 1 | 3 | 35 |
| Gloucestershire | 0 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| Greater Manchester | 4 | 5 | 74 | 6 | 9 | 56 | 4 | 2 | 106 |
| Gwent | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Hampshire | 1 | 7 | 29 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Hertfordshire | 0 | 6 | 59 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 0 | 5 | 61 |
| Humberside | 0 | 4 | 19 | 0 | 1 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 18 |
| Kent | 0 | 2 | 48 | 0 | 7 | 73 | 0 | 2 | 23 |
| Lancashire | 0 | 1 | 31 | 0 | 2 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 19 |
| Leicestershire | 1 | 2 | 15 | 0 | 2 | 16 | ¹— | ¹— | ¹— |
| Lincolnshire | 0 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 18 | 2 | 2 | 12 |
| London, City of | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Merseyside | 3 | 3 | 62 | 3 | 6 | 75 | 0 | 3 | 58 |
| Metropolitan Police | 5 | 14 | ¹— | 4 | 21 | 600 | 4 | 23 | 724 |
| Norfolk | 1 | 1 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 28 | 0 | 6 | 26 |
| Northamptonshire | 0 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 6 | 19 | 0 | 4 | 22 |
| Northumbria | 0 | 3 | 62 | 0 | 3 | 70 | 3 | 13 | 94 |
| North Wales | 0 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| North Yorkshire | ¹— | ¹— | ¹— | 0 | 2 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| Nottinghamshire | 2 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 8 | 57 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| South Wales | 0 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| South Yorkshire | 0 | 3 | 24 | 0 | 12 | 67 | 2 | 10 | 83 |
| Staffordshire | 0 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 1 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Suffolk | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 8 |
| Surrey | 0 | 2 | 40 | 1 | 2 | 33 | 0 | 1 | 31 |
| Sussex | 0 | 7 | 45 | 0 | 6 | 27 | 2 | 0 | 31 |
| Thames Valley | 3 | 13 | 115 | 2 | 11 | 122 | 0 | 6 | 71 |
| Warwickshire | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| West Mercia | 0 | 4 | 30 | 0 | 2 | 22 | 0 | 4 | 32 |
| West Midlands | 1 | 1 | 61 | 2 | 2 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 44 |
| West Yorkshire | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| Wiltshire | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| 2005-06 | 2006-07 | |||||
| Fatal injury | Serious injury | Other injury | Fatal injury | Serious injury | Other injury | |
| Avon and Somerset | 2 | 3 | 68 | 0 | 8 | 42 |
| Bedfordshire | 0 | 0 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 11 |
| Cambridgeshire | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cheshire | 0 | 5 | 30 | 0 | 2 | 18 |
| Cleveland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 |
| Cumbria | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Derbyshire | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
| Devon and Cornwall | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 20 |
| Dorset | 1 | 1 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| Durham | 0 | 2 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 21 |
| Dyfed-Powys | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Essex | 1 | 4 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 22 |
| Gloucestershire | 0 | 0 | 6 | ¹— | ¹— | ¹— |
| Greater Manchester | 1 | 3 | 91 | 6 | 6 | 64 |
| Gwent | 0 | 1 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Hampshire | 1 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 |
| Hertfordshire | 2 | 3 | 45 | 0 | 11 | 48 |
| Humberside | 0 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 19 |
| Kent | 1 | 1 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| Lancashire | 0 | 0 | 28 | 0 | 2 | 32 |
| Leicestershire | 0 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 15 |
| Lincolnshire | 0 | 1 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| London, City of | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Merseyside | 3 | 3 | 136 | 1 | 4 | 88 |
| Metropolitan Police | 4 | 33 | 584 | 4 | 26 | 496 |
| Norfolk | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Northamptonshire | 0 | 1 | 18 | 1 | 7 | 13 |
| Northumbria | 1 | 5 | 84 | 1 | 5 | 64 |
| North Wales | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 24 |
| North Yorkshire | 0 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 11 | 16 |
| Nottinghamshire | ¹— | ¹— | ¹— | ¹— | ¹— | ¹— |
| South Wales | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| South Yorkshire | 0 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 33 | 35 |
| Staffordshire | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 17 |
| Suffolk | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
| Surrey | 0 | 1 | 31 | 0 | 2 | 24 |
| Sussex | 5 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 43 |
| Thames Valley | 0 | 2 | 127 | 3 | 6 | 56 |
| Warwickshire | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| West Mercia | 0 | 2 | 26 | 0 | 1 | 23 |
| West Midlands | 0 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| West Yorkshire | 0 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 52 |
| Wiltshire | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| ¹ Data are not available. |
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) how many road traffic (a) accidents and (b) fatalities there were in (i) the Bury St. Edmunds constituency and (ii) Suffolk in each year since 1997;
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) how many road traffic (a) accidents and (b) fatalities there were in (i) the Bury St. Edmunds constituency and (ii) Suffolk in each year since 1997;
| Accidents and fatalities in the parliamentary constituency of Bury St. Edmunds and Suffolk: 1997 to 2006 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (i)Bury St. Edmunds¹ | (ii) Suffolk | |||
| (a) Accidents | (b) Fatalities | (a) Accidents | (b) Fatalities | |
| 1997 | 332 | 8 | 2,224 | 43 |
| 1998 | 326 | 3 | 2,251 | 23 |
| 1999 | 285 | 8 | 2,298 | 48 |
| 2000 | 352 | 10 | 2,312 | 56 |
| 2001 | 321 | 6 | 2,356 | 53 |
| 2002 | 299 | 7 | 2,300 | 43 |
| 2003 | 333 | 8 | 2,341 | 60 |
| 2004 | 301 | 5 | 2,220 | 42 |
| 2005 | 296 | 7 | 2,237 | 36 |
| 2006 | 282 | 4 | 2,087 | 47 |
| ¹ Based on the 2004 parliamentary constituency boundaries |
| Accidents and fatalities involving drivers aged under 21 in the parliamentary constituency of Bury St. Edmunds and Suffolk: 1997 to 2006 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (i) Bury St Edmunds¹ | (ii) Suffolk | |||
| (a) Accidents | (b) Fatalities | (a) Accidents | (b) Fatalities | |
| 1997 | 98 | 2 | 589 | 9 |
| 1998 | 95 | 1 | 590 | 3 |
| 1999 | 76 | 1 | 623 | 6 |
| 2000 | 92 | 4 | 584 | 15 |
| 2001 | 84 | 0 | 589 | 9 |
| 2002 | 75 | 1 | 573 | 7 |
| 2003 | 99 | 0 | 620 | 11 |
| 2004 | 73 | 1 | 594 | 9 |
| 2005 | 90 | 1 | 645 | 7 |
| 2006 | 79 | 0 | 582 | 18 |
| ¹ Based on the 2004 parliamentary constituency boundaries |