Written question asked by Chris Ruane (Labour) on Tuesday, 12 March 2013, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 14 March 2013. It was answered by Stephen Hammond (Conservative) on Tuesday, 19 March 2013 on behalf of the Department for Transport.

Roads: Accidents

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many people were killed in road traffic accidents on (a) motorways, (b) A roads and (c) B roads in each of the last 10 years.

[148499]

Answer

In each of the last 10 years in Great Britain, the number of people killed in reported personal injury accidents on (a) motorways, (b) A roads and (c) B roads were as follows:

Fatalities
Road Type	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
Motorways	224	217	164	204	187	183	158	132	118	106
A roads	2,005	2,024	1,824	1,797	1,815	1,611	1,408	1,267	1,050	1,109
B roads	458	506	465	442	416	454	359	330	265	271

Data for the year 2012 will be available in June 2013.

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Type: Written question
Reference: 148499; 560 c574W
Session: 2012-13
Related items: Roads: Accidents
Tuesday, 16 April 2013
Written questions
House of Commons
Subjects: Death Accidents Roads
Contains statistics: Yes
Link: View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk

Roads: Accidents

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