§ Mr. Churchillasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if she will arrange for an independent analysis of 338W all accident report forms relating to motor invalid tricycles with manually operated gearbox, motor invalid tricycles with automatic transmission, electrically propelled invalid tricycles and four-wheeled vehicles provided by her Department, respectively, for the years ended 30th September 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973 and 1974 to assess the incidence both of accidents possibly attributable to the design of the vehicle and of severe or slight injury to the driver.
§ Mr. Alfred MorrisA detailed analysis of a sample of accident report forms was done last year by officers of the Department of the Environment and their conclusion was that it was not possible to determine the extent to which the accidents were due to the vehicle rather than the driver. However, my Department, with participation by the Department of the Environment, is undertaking a further detailed study of the reports of injury and overturnings in the past 12 months to see if more generally any lessons might be learned to help reduce accidents involving the Department's vehicles.
§ Mr. Churchillasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if she will publish in the Official Report the full accident statistics relating to motor invalid tricycles with manually operated gearbox, motor invalid tricycles with automatic transmission, electrically propelled invalid tricycles and four-wheeled vehicles, respectively, for the years ended 30th September 1973 and 1974, listing all categories of information relating to vehicles on issue, numbers of accidents, types of accidents, incidence of overturning, drivers injured and drivers killed.
§ Mr. Alfred MorrisI would refer the hon. Member to my replies to my hon. Friend the Member for Carlisle (Mr. Lewis) on 4th November 1974.—[Vol. 880, c.87–90.]