HC Deb 12 July 1995 vol 263 cc569-71W
Mr. Flynn

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to his answer of 4 July,Official Report, columns 117–18, on bull bars, what percentage of the population this answer covers; and what factor should be used to multiply the figure in order to calculate the total figure for the United Kingdom. [33502]

Mr. Norris

The police forces which noted injury accidents involving bull bars during 1994 covered an area with a population of 29 million people. This figure represents 53 per cent. of the population of England, Scotland and Wales. These police forces covered 50 per cent. of all reported injury accidents, 57 per cent. of all fatal accidents and 53 per cent. of all serious-injury accidents. In principle, therefore, the figures for accidents involving vehicles fitted with bull bars should be approximately doubled to give an estimate for the United Kingdom; but such extrapolation should be treated with caution in view of the possibility both of under-reporting and of regional variation.

It should be noted that the number of casualties involving vehicles fitted with bull bars is not the same as the number of casualties due to bull bars, which can be determined only be analysis of the police reports of the accidents.

Mr. Flynn

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport which police forces submitted figures on accidents involving bull bars in 1994 for his Department's study and which did not. [33832]

Mr. Norris

The two lists show those police forces which took part in the special study and those which did not.

  • Contributing forces
  • England
  • Avon and Somerset
  • Cambridgeshire
  • Cumbria
  • Cheshire
  • Derbyshire
  • Essex
  • Greater Manchester
  • Hampshire
  • Hertfordshire
  • Leicestershire
  • Lincolnshire
  • Norfolk
  • North Yorkshire
  • Nottinghamshire
  • Northamptonshire
  • South Yorkshire
  • Staffordshire
  • Suffolk
    • 571
  • Surrey
  • Sussex
  • West Midlands
  • West Mercia
  • Wiltshire
  • Wales
  • South Wales
  • Scotland
  • Central
  • Fife
  • Grampian
  • Northern
  • Strathclyde
  • Tayside
  • Non-contributing forces
  • England
  • Bedfordshire
  • Cleveland
  • Devon and Cornwall
  • Dorset
  • Durham
  • Gloucestershire
  • Humberside
  • Kent
  • Lancashire
  • Merseyside
  • Metropolitan
  • Northumbria
  • Thames valley
  • Warwickshire
  • West Yorkshire
  • Wales
  • Dyfed-Powys
  • Gwent
  • North Wales
  • Scotland
  • Lothian and Borders
  • Dumfries and Galloway

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