§ Sir Anthony Grantasked the Secretary of State for Transport what is the number of accidents involving death or serious injury on each motorway, expressed as a percentage of the length of the motorways.
§ Mrs. ChalkerThe information is as follows:
The data requested is given below in the form of accident rates. Fatal and Serious Accidents on individual Motorways: GB: 1983 Fatal or Serious Accidents Rate per Km England M1, M10 & M45 239 0.727 M2 31 0.765 M3 31 0.473 M4 139 0.735 M5 94 0.363 M6 183 0.505 M11 26 0.314 M18 4 0.0883 M20 12 0.180 M23 4 0.144 M25 26 0.261 M27, M271 8 0.191 M40 14 0.284 M50 7 0.2121 M55 3 0.155 M56 16 0.288 M58 3 0.152 M61 11 0.309 M62 42 0.247 M63 14 0.667 M69 5 0.194 M180, M181 6 0.130 Other motorways 28 0.104 All English Motorways 946 0.402 Wales M4 40 0.333 Scotland M8 45 0.725 M9 13 0.271 M73 3 0.361 M74 7 0.321 M77 — — M80 5 0.40 M85 1 0.410 M90 17 0.400 M876 6 1.053 M898 — — All Scottish Motorways 97 0.474