HC Deb 18 April 1988 vol 131 c364W
52. Mr. Flynn

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what estimates are available to him of the predicted number of fatal and other serious road accidents which would be avoided by a changeover to British standard time or a combination of British standard time and double British summer time.

Mr. Peter Bottomley

A TRRL study published in 1986 estimated, with a number of caveats, that the potential accident benefits of re-introducing British standard time—as during the 1968 to 1971 experimental period—might be as follows: