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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
Male	Under 17	712	6	689	11	661	7	667	5	619	8
	17-19	434	8	432	13	461	8	450	7	490	8
	20-24	518	14	473	16	499	11	538	15	540	17
	25-29	449	13	332	14	371	7	396	8	380	5
	30-34	436	7	366	9	405	7	385	10	362	9
	35-39	394	9	373	6	398	6	373	10	407	8
	40-49	548	6	514	10	578	9	565	15	589	8
	50-59	358	3	346	6	383	10	367	10	363	6
	60-69	185	3	192	5	202	2	192	6	177	8
	70+	192	12	153	13	158	6	184	13	171	7
	Total(2)	3,692	52	3,408	69	3,597	46	3,553	75	3,472	56
Female	Under 17	502	1	414	7	461	3	450	3	418	5
	17-19	296	6	255	6	272	3	296	1	304	6
	20-24	399	3	370	3	390	2	380	2	422	2
	25-29	346	3	284	3	293	2	336	3	312	1
	30-34	362	1	311	1	307	1	276	3	267	1
	35-39	311	2	267	4	232	0	322	0	305	1
	40-49	442	1	411	3	449	3	467	7	442	6
	50-59	344	1	303	7	287	3	327	4	294	2
	60-69	195	3	193	4	163	2	178	2	178	5
	70+	198	12	201	11	183	3	185	9	196	3
	Total(2)	2,877	25	2,572	33	2,621	21	2,714	30	2,679	25
(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.

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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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