§ Mr. Cryerasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what was the number of fatalities occurring in road accidents during 1975.
§ Dr. GilbertThe provisional estimate for 1975 is 6,330 fatalities.
§ Mr. Cryerasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will give the number of fatalities per million passenger miles on (a) British Railways (b) buses and (c) private cars in 1975.
§ Dr. GilbertThe information is not available in the precise form requested, but the following provisonal estimates are available:
Passenger Fatalities: 1975 per million passenger miles British Railways (excludes London Transport)* 0.0003 Buses and coaches 0.0035 Cars and taxis 0.0101 * excludes boarding and alighting accidents.
§ Mr. Cryerasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what was the number of road accidents in which the driver has been killed and the percentage increase in the number of such fatalities in the period following closure of public houses in 1975.
§ Dr. GilbertThe information is not available in the precise form requested by my hon. Friend, but, for the first nine months of 1975, compared with the corresponding period of 1974, there were, respectively, 561 and 579 driver fatalities between the hours of 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. This is equivalent to a 3 per cent. decrease in 1975 compared with 1974 for this period of time.