§ Mr. JesselTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list monthly figures for deaths from road accidents for each month from January 1987 till the latest available date.
§ Mr. AtkinsThe requested information is as follows:
Deaths from road accidents; by month from January 1987 1987 1988 1989 January 333 386 1n/a February 352 358 1n/a March 365 360 1n/a 1st quarter total 1,050 1,104 11,178 April 412 385 1n/a May 410 403 1n/a June 421 389 1n/a 2nd quarter total 1,243 1,177 11,133 July 466 445 1n/a August 465 412 1n/a September 478 439 1n/a 3rd quarter total 1,409 1,296 21,450 October 499 527 — November 441 461 — December 483 487 — 4th quarter total 1,423 1,475 — ANNUAL TOTAL 5,125 5,052 1n/a 1 n/a denotes figures not available. 2 Provisional results. These figures show the progress made towards our target of reducing road casualties by one third by the year 2000. Fatalities in 1988 were 10 per cent. down on the 1981 to 1985 average of 5,598, which has been adopted as a base figure for the target reduction. There is, however, no room for complacency. The recent move against the trend is, we hope, a temporary setback and we shall redouble our efforts to build on the earlier good progress.