HC Deb 14 March 1985 vol 75 c203W
Sir Anthony Grant

asked 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. Chalker

The 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

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