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Lancashire( 3) | |||||||||||
Number of accidents | |||||||||||
2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | |||||||
Gender | Age | Injury | Fatal | Injury | Fatal | Injury | Fatal | Injury | Fatal | Injury | Fatal |
(1) Ribble Valley constituency, based on 2004 parliamentary constituency boundaries. (2) May be less than the sum of the age bands as an accident may involve casualties from more than one age band. Also includes cases where age is missing. (3) Includes Lancashire county council, Blackburn and Blackpool. |
Mr. Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what steps her Department has taken in the last 10 years to reduce road casualties. [174445]
Jim Fitzpatrick: In 2000, we published Tomorrow's Roads: Safer for Everyone, our road safety strategy to 2010. This contained a wealth of actions to educate road users, improve the road environment and enforce road safety offences. The strategy also contained a commitment to achieve by 2010:
a 40 per cent. reduction in the number of people killed or seriously injured in road accidents;
a 50 per cent. reduction in the number of children killed or seriously injured; and
a 10 per cent. reduction in the slight casualty rate.
A review of the strategy earlier this year found that, while there was a need to improve further in a number of respects, progress against the targets was good:
the number of people killed or seriously injured was 33 per cent. down;
the number of children killed or seriously injured was 52 per cent. down; and
the slight casualty rate was 28 per cent. down.
We expect to consult next year on a strategy for the period from 2010.
Mr. Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many road accidents there were which resulted in (a) injury and (b) death on the (i) A59 and (ii) M6 within the borders of Lancashire County Council area in each of the last 10 years; and what the ratio of these figures was to total traffic volume in each year. [174448]
Jim Fitzpatrick: The information requested is given in the tables.
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