§ Mr. SpringTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will allow safety camera partnerships in Suffolk to release funding raised from speed cameras for local road safety projects that do not involve speed camera installations; and if he will make a statement. [165583]
§ Mr. JamiesonI have no plans to change the current policy that receipts from conditional offer fixed penalty speeding fines may be used only for the installation and operation of approved safety cameras. Other investment in road safety measures is funded within local authorities' and national road programmes.
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§ Mr. SpringTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many(a) deaths and (b) serious injuries there were in road traffic accidents in Suffolk in each year since 1997. [165584]
§ Mr. JamiesonThe following table shows numbers of deaths and serious injuries in road accidents in Suffolk in each year from 1997 to 2002. Figures for 2003 are not yet available.
Killed Seriously injured 2002 43 360 2001 53 415 2000 56 468 1999 48 432 1998 23 364 1997 43 440
§ Mr. SpringTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport pursuant to his answer of 18 March 2004,Official Report, column 408W, what percentage of the money raised from speed cameras within Suffolk since April 2003 were (a) used for the installation and operation of approved safety camera installations and (b) passed to the Consolidated Fund. [165689]
§ Mr. JamiesonSafety camera partnership accounts are audited annually This information will be available when the audited accounts for the Suffolk partnership are completed later this year.
§ Mrs. MayTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many accidents have occurred on the A4 between Maidenhead and Reading in each year since 1995; how many resulted in(a) personal injuries and (b) death; how many involved drunk driving; how many resulted in prosecution and how many of the casualties were pedestrians. [165859]
§ Mr. DarlingThe following table shows the number of accidents on the A4 between Maidenhead and Reading which resulted in either personal injury or death; the number of accidents where at least one driver was found to be over the drink drive limit on taking a roadside breath test; and the number of pedestrian casualties in accidents on this stretch of the A4, in each year from 1995 to 2002.
We cannot identify how many of the drivers over the drink drive limit were prosecuted as the Home Office does not provide prosecution data for individual roads.
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All accidents Drink/drive accidents Fatal Involving personal injury but not death Fatal Involving personal injury but not death Pedestrian casualties 1995 0 33 0 3 1 1996 0 25 0 2 0 1997 1 18 0 1 1 1998 0 27 0 0 0 1999 0 22 0 0 2 2000 0 27 0 0 1 2001 1 13 0 0 1 2002 1 15 0 0 0 All 3 180 0 6 6
§ Mr. RedwoodTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many injuries have been experienced by pedestrians as a result of accidents with cyclists in the last three years. [165961]
§ Dr. HowellsThe following table shows the number of pedestrian casualties who were struck by cyclists in road accidents for the last three years for which figures are available. These figures are published each year in Table 23 of "Road Casualties Great Britain: the Annual Report".
Number of pedestrian casualties who were hit by pedal cycles: 2000–02 2000 2001 2002 Killed 3 0 4 Seriously injured 66 60 47 Slight 225 198 158 Total 294 258 209
§ Mr. RedwoodTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many(a) deaths and (b) serious injuries of pedestrians have been caused by accidents with buses in the last three years. [165962]
§ Dr. HowellsThe following table shows the number of pedestrians who were killed or seriously injured when struck by a bus or a coach in a road accident in each of the last three years for which figures are available. These figures are published each year in Table 23 of "Road Casualties Great Britain: the Annual Report".
Pedestrian casualties by severity in accidents with buses: 2000–02 2000 2001 2002 Killed 60 79 55 Seriously Injured 356 351 384
§ Lembit ÖpikTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport pursuant to his answer of 18 March 2004,Official Report, column 408W, on safety camera partnerships, if he will amend the rules of the safety camera partnerships so that funding can be released to fund local road safety projects, including Bikesafe; and if he will make a statement. [166034]
§ Mr. JamiesonInvestment in road safety projects is funded within local authorities' and national road programmes. I have no plans to amend rules for the safety camera cost recover scheme in order to broaden the scope of what can be funded from the fine receipts.
§ John ThursoTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport pursuant to his answer of 22 January 2004, Official Report, column 1377W, on the road network, what the(a) date and (b) location of the most recent Government funded trial of anti-glare devices undertaken in the UK was. [166102]
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- (a) between 1 February 1974 and 31 January 1977
- (b) on the M6 between junctions 1 and 4.
§ Miss McIntoshTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many sites there are on the UK motorway and trunk road network of chevron markings, designed to ensure motorists keep their distance from the car in front; and what their locations are. [166317]
§ Mr. JamiesonThere are chevron markings at six sites, namely
M5 J22–21 Northbound carriageway between Somerset/North Somerset border south of Weston super Mare.M62 Westbound between J23–22.M6 J18–19 Northbound and Southbound carriageways.M56 J12–14 Northbound and Southbound carriageways.M6 J32–33 Southbound carriageway only.M1 J16–17 Southbound carriageway only.
§ Miss McIntoshTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport what research his Department has commissioned into the effectiveness of chevrons designed to encourage motorists to keep their distance from one another. [166318]
§ Mr. JamiesonThe Department of Transport commissioned TRL in the early 1990s to undertake two trials to investigate the effectiveness of using 'Chevron' guidance markings on the road surface to encourage motorists to maintain a safe distance from one another. The research showed that they were effective in reducing vehicles following too closely. The chevron markings and their associated signs are prescribed in the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2002.