§ Viscount Brentfordasked Her Majesty's Government:
How many traffic accidents have occurred on the single lane stretches of the A.21 between Tonbridge and Lamberhurst in the past three years and when those road improvements planned in 1990 will actually be made.
The Minister of State, Department of Transport (The Earl of Caithness)During the three year period 1st January 1990 to 31st December 1992 there were reports of two accidents involving fatalities, 25 involving serious injuries and 63 involving slight injuries on the two single carriageway lengths (5.9 miles) of the A.21 trunk road between the southern end of the Tonbridge bypass and Scotney Castle, south of Lamberhurst. There are three schemes in the roads programme for improving these lengths of road. Subject to completion of the statutory procedures and the availability of funds, construction of the Lamberhurst bypass and the Tonbridge to Pembury dualling could start in 1995 and the Kippings Cross to Lamberhurst improvement in 1996.