§ Mr. Lomasasked the Minister of Transport if she will list, in table form, the total number of road casualties in Great Britain for each year since 1960 to the latest available year, showing the number of accidents, the number and different types of vehicles involved, the number of persons killed, the number seriously injured, the number slightly injured, and the number of accidents in each year that occurred during the hours of darkness.
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§ Mr. SwinglerFollowing is the information:
1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 Number of injury accidents* 271,787 270,295 264,032 271,531 292,245 299,229 291,733 Number of casualties—Total 347,551 349,767 341,696 356,179 385,499 397,937 392,457 Fatal 6,970 6,908 6,709 6,922 7,820 7,952 7,985 Serious 84,443 84,936 83,915 87,776 95,460 97,865 99,838 Slight 256,138 257,923 251,072 261,481 282,219 292,120 284,634 Number of vehicles involved— Total 433,749 430,933 421,578 436,967 472,070 484,592 468,211 Pedal cycles 53,617 49,863 45,153 41,679 41,133 37,864 32,480 Mopeds 7,161 6,808 6,169 6,421 8,005 7,312 6,230 Motor scooters 28,389 28,764 28,253 26,893 28,940 27,809 25,093 Motor cycles 68,860 63,048 55,150 51,668 56,674 51,177 43,886 Cars and taxis 176,003 181,273 185,060 203,867 229,163 251,799 257,985 Public service vehicles 23,732 24,235 24,086 23,969 23,975 23,338 21,644 Goods vehicles (under 1½ tons) 37,268 41,486 43,907 45,131 46,171 46,822 43,363 Goods vehicles (1½–3 tons) 16,958 13,324 11,256 12,178 11,187 8,999 8,904 Goods vehicles (over 3 tons) 16,311 16,396 16,792 19,004 19,961 22,627 22,376 Other vehicles 5,450 5,736 5,752 6,157 6,861 6,845 6,250 * The number of accidents that occurred in the hours of darkness is not readily available for each year. In 1961, out of 77,356 fatal and serious accidents 27,159 (35 per cent.) occurred in hours of darkness: in 1963 the proportion was 28,635 out of 79,369 or 36 per cent.