§ Mr. Bob RussellTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list by each police authority area how many people were killed in road accidents between Christmas and the New Year in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement. [65874]
§ Ms Glenda JacksonThe information requested is shown in the following table for the three years to 1997, the most recent year for which this information is available.
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Road accident fatalities on 26–31 December inclusive by police force: 1995–97 Year of accident Police force 1995 1996 1997 Avon and Somerset 1 2 0 Bedfordshire 0 2 0 Cambridgeshire 0 2 1
Road accident fatalities on 26–31 December inclusive by police force: 1995–97 Year of accident Police force 1995 1996 1997 Central 0 0 1 Cheshire 0 2 2 City of London 0 0 0 Cleveland 0 0 0 Cumbria 0 0 0 Derbyshire 2 2 0 Devon and Cornwall 1 3 0 Dorset 0 1 0 Dumfries and Galloway 0 0 0 Durham 2 0 0 Dyfed-Powys 0 1 0 Essex 0 3 0 Fife 1 0 0 Gloucestershire 1 1 0 Grampian 0 0 1 Greater Manchester 2 4 2 Gwent 0 1 4 Hampshire 1 1 2 Hertfordshire 0 0 0 Humberside 1 2 1 Kent 1 0 1 Lancashire 0 2 0 Leicestershire 0 1 1 Lincolnshire 0 2 2 Lothian and Borders 0 0 1 Merseyside 1 1 0 Metropolitan Police 2 1 3 Norfolk 1 0 1 North Wales 0 0 0 North Yorkshire 1 0 2 Northamptonshire 0 1 0 Northern 0 1 0 Northumbria 0 0 4 Nottinghamshire 2 1 0 South Wales 2 0 2 South Yorkshire 0 1 0 Staffordshire 0 2 1 Strathclyde 2 1 2 Suffolk 0 0 1 Surrey 0 1 2 Sussex 0 5 0 Tayside 0 0 0 Thames Valley 3 2 0 Warwickshire 0 0 1 West Mercia 0 3 0 West Midlands 1 3 3 West Yorkshire 0 4 0 Wiltshire 4 0 1 Total 32 59 42