§ 17. Bob RussellTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many crashes involving vehicles on the hard shoulder of motorways occurred in the last year for which figures are available. [184931]
§ Mr. JamiesonThe number of personal injury accidents that occurred on hard shoulders of English trunk motorways in 2002, the latest year for which validated data is available, was 104.
The provisional number of personal injury accidents that occurred on these motorway hard shoulders in 2003 was 73.
No records are kept of non-injury accidents.