§ Mr. Tony LloydTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list the number of people killed or seriously injured in motor accidents, by age, in each local authority area in the north-west region in each of the last five years; and what proportion of these accidents were related to excessive alcohol consumption.
§ Mr. Peter BottomleyThe data requested can only be supplied at disproportionate cost. The following tables show the number of people killed or seriously injured, by age, in each county in the north-west region for each of the last three years.
There are no readily available statistics for accidents related to excessive alcohol consumption, by region.
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County Age of Casualty 0–4 5–14 15–24 25–39 40–59 60+ Total Merseyside 26 222 490 295 204 225 1,462 Total 199 967 3,115 1,748 1,183 1,083 8,295 1987 (provisional data) Cheshire 26 93 434 228 175 126 1,082 Cumbria 29 69 367 200 130 143 938 Greater Manchester 58 350 828 511 314 367 2,428 Lancashire 49 219 717 425 319 265 1,994 Merseyside 64 223 404 308 246 215 1,460 Total 226 954 2,750 1,672 1,184 1,116 7,902