§ Mr. AshdownTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what is his estimate of the total road accident fatalities in the United Kingdom since 1970(a) in total and (b) for each year; and if he will make a statement. [110806]
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§ Mr. HillThe information requested is shown in the following table.
Road accident fatalities: UK 1970–1998 Number of fatalities 1970 7,771 1971 8,003 1972 8,135 1973 7,741 1974 7,199 1975 6,679 1976 6,870 1977 6,969 1978 7,119 1979 6,645 1980 6,239 1981 6,069 1982 6,150 1983 5,618 1984 5,788 1985 5,342 1986 5,618 1987 5,339 1988 5,230 1989 5,554 1990 5,402 1991 4,753 1992 4,379 1993 3,957 1994 3,807 1995 3,765 1996 3,740 1997 3,743 1998 3,581 Total 167,205
§ Mr. AshdownTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what has been the total of road accident fatalities in England for each year since 1990; what has been the total of road accident fatalities in each English county since 1990, expressed(a) in absolute terms and (b) in relation to the population of each such county; and if he will make a statement. [110805]
§ Mr. HillThe information requested is shown in the following tables.
Table (a) shows the fatalities by county and in total and Table (b) shows fatality rates by county per 100,000 population.
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Table (a) English road accident fatalities: 1990–98 Year Number 1990 4,423 1991 3,854 1992 3,549 1993 3,228 1994 3,077 1995 2,995 1996 3,024 1997 3,001 1998 2,834
Table (b) Road accident fatalities: English counties: 1990–98 County 1990–98 Total fatalities 1990–98 Average rate per 100,000 population Avon 581 59.4 Bedfordshire 408 75.2 Berkshire 376 48.6 Buckinghamshire 493 74.9 Cambridgeshire 677 98.2 Cheshire 712 73.1 Cleveland 279 49.9 Cornwall 356 74.3 Cumbria 536 109.3 Derbyshire 634 66.4 Devon 515 48.9 Dorset 436 64.7 Durham 424 69.9 East Sussex 460 63.2 Essex 888 56.5 Gloucestershire 480 87.5 Greater London 2,616 37.4 Greater Manchester 1,222 47.5 Hampshire 945 54.5 Hereford and Worceser 569 81.9 Hertfordshire 576 57.2 Humberside 613 69.3 Kent 947 61.1 Lancashire 923 65.0 Leicestershire 747 81.8 Lincolnshire 738 121.8 Merseyside 630 44.0 Norfolk 725 94.2 Northants 505 84.6 Northumberland 297 96.6 North Yorkshire 796 109.4 Nottinghamshire 828 80.6 Oxfordshire 533 89.6 Shropshire 381 91.2 Somerset 459 96.1 South Yorkshire 664 50.9 Staffordshire 703 66.7 Suffolk 403 61.5 Surrey 629 60.3 Tyne and Wear 485 43.0 Warwickshire 464 93.5 West Midlands 1,133 43.1 West Sussex 484 66.6 West Yorkshire 1,202 57.2 Wiltshire 513 87.5