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Motorways: Accidents

Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many road accidents involving stationary vehicles on motorway hard shoulders were reported in each year since 2004, broken down by motorway; and how many people were (a) injured and (b) killed in each case. [219554]

Jim Fitzpatrick: The total number of road traffic accidents on motorway hard shoulders that have resulted in personal injury (PIAs) in each year since 2004, are listed in the following table. The statistics include all motorways that are the responsibility of the Highways Agency, with at least one accident.

	Accidents				Killed casualties				All casualties
Road	2004	2005	2006	2007	2004	2005	2006	2007	2004	2005	2006	2007
M1	12	19	7	7	1	7	0	1	21	32	12	9
M2	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	0
M3	5	1	3	1	0	0	1	0	5	4	6	1
M4	6	9	0	3	2	3	0	0	14	10	0	4
M5	6	4	5	2	0	0	1	0	11	5	8	4
M6	6	11	5	8	0	1	1	0	7	24	12	12
M11	9	3	3	0	0	0	3	0	12	4	4	0
M20	1	4	1	3	0	1	0	0	1	8	1	6
M23	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
M25	4	7	5	16	0	2	4	3	15	20	11	31
M26	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0
M27	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
M40	4	5	5	4	0	0	0	1	9	10	9	5
M42	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	7	0	0
M56	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
M57	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0
M60	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	2	0
M61	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
M62	3	3	3	6	0	0	0	0	3	4	3	8
M180	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	0
M602	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
M621	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
A1(M)	2	2	2	6	0	0	0	1	4	5	3	17
A194(M)	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0
A404(M)	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Total	65	75	43	62	3	15	11	6	114	137	75	104

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