Written question asked by Owen Paterson (Conservative) on Tuesday, 22 May 2007, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 24 May 2007. It was answered by Stephen Ladyman (Labour) on Thursday, 24 May 2007 on behalf of the Department for Transport.

Roads: Accidents

Question: 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.

Answer

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

Secondary information