§ Mr. Newensasked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will give the number of accidents caused by motor vehicles jackknifing for each year for which figures are available from 1966 onwards and the annual number of fatalities involved.
§ Mr. HoramI regret that the information is not available in the precise form requested. Also it is not possible to separately identify accidents caused by jackknifing from those in which jackknifing was a result of the accident.
NUMBER OF VEHICLES INVOLVED IN ACCIDENTS WHERE JACKKNIFING OCCURRED* Fatal accidents Number of vehicles all accidents 1966–68 … … … Not available 1969 … … … 54 790 1970 … … … 45 737 1971 … … … 52 611 1972 … … … 34 523 1973 … … … 46 521 1974 … … … 44 506 1975 … … … 25 442 * Includes articulated goods vehicles, cars towing caravans and other vehicles towing trailers.