§ Mr. SpearingTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many serious injuries, deaths or other appropriate and broadly comparable indicators of road accidents occur annually per unit of vehicle/miles travelled in each member state of the Europe Union; and what studies have been made of variations. [32016]
§ Mr. NorrisInternational comparisons of road accident data are difficult because of national difference in definition, reporting procedures, reporting rates of both the public and collecting authorities, the legal requirement to report injury accidents and different levels of enforcement of road safety legislation. The table, which 595W includes European member states, presents available data which are regarded as reasonably comparable between the countries shown. Such comparisons provide a benchmark for a wide variety of more detailed studies of international variation in road accident casualties and rates or reporting procedures.
Road user fatalities, OECD member states, 19941 Road deaths per 100,000 population Road deaths per 10,000 motor vehicles Road deaths per billion vehicle km United Kingdom 6.5 — 8.8 Great Britain 6.4 1.5 8.7 Austria 16.7 3.1 21.0 Belgium 16.8 3.4 — Denmark 10.5 2.6 13.6 Finland 9.5 2.2 11.5 France 15.6 3.2 18.5 Germany 12.1 2.1 16.6 Germany (East) 19.3 4.0 32.0 Germany (West) 10.3 1.7 13.7 Greece 20.2 6.2 — Ireland 11.4 3.4 14.8 Italy 12.6 2.0 — Luxembourg 18.5 2.4 — Netherlands 8.5 1.9 12.4 Portugal 28.7 5.4 — Spain 14.4 3.1 — Sweden 6.7 1.4 — Hungary 15.2 6.1 — Iceland 6.4 1.3 9.1 Norway 6.5 1.3 — Switzerland 9.7 1.7 11.3 Turkey 14.0 — — Australia 11.1 1.9 — Canada 12.4 2.0 — Japan 10.2 1.8 18.7 New Zealand 16.5 2.5 — USA 15.8 2.1 10.7 1 Figures in bold are for 1993.