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Road Signs and Markings: Isle of Sheppey

Mr. Grieve: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport if he will instruct the Highways Agency to ensure that road signage on the Isle of Sheppey and the A249 includes directions to HM Prison Swaleside, HM Prison Elmley and HM Prison Standford Hill. [285276]

Chris Mole: The signing for the HM Prisons Isle of Sheppey on the A249 is being reviewed by the Highways Agency in liaison with Kent county council which is responsible for all other roads on the island. The Highways Agency hope to be able to reach a conclusion in this matter soon.

Roads: Death

Norman Baker: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many people were killed in (a) road and (b) rail accidents in each year since 1980. [284810]

Paul Clark: The numbers of people killed in reported (a) road and (b) rail accidents in Great Britain in each year between 1980 and 2008 are given in the table.


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Number of fatalities

Road accidents( 1) Rail accidents( 2) : total O f which : train accidents( 3)

1980

5,953

429

7

1981

5,846

445

7

1982

5,937

353

11

1983

5,445

427

10

1984

5,599

415

30

1985

5,165

392

6

1986

5,385

397

27

1987

5,125

421

10

1988

5,052

431

40

1989

5,373

362

18

1990

5,217

369

4

1991

4,568

359

12

1992

4,229

307

10

1993

3,814

316

4

1994

3,650

299

12

1995

3,621

269

5

1996

3,598

288

5

1997

3,599

299

8

1998

3,421

288

4

1999

3,423

349

34

2000

3,409

319

7

2001

3,450

308

13

2002

3,431

316

11

2003

3,508

286

11

2004

3,221

288

12

2005

3,201

314

9

2006

3,172

343

1

2007

2,946

309

4

2008

2,538

(4)-

(4)-

(1 )Fatalities in reported personal injury road accidents on the public highway which involved at least one vehicle. Confirmed suicides are excluded. (2) Fatalities in train accidents, accidents occurring through movement of railway vehicles and other accidents occurring on railway infrastructure (including acts of trespass and suicides). (3) Train accidents are defined as collisions, derailments, trains running into obstructions, fires on board trains and missile damage to drivers' cab windscreens. (4) 2008 figures for fatalities in rail accidents are scheduled for publication end July 2009.

Mr. Jenkins: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many road fatalities there have been in each constituency in the West Midlands in each of the last five years for which figures are available. [285363]

Paul Clark: The number of fatalities resulting from reported personal injury road accidents in each constituency in the West Midlands in each of the last five years are given in the table:


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Number of fatalities
Parliamentary constituency( 1) 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

Aldridge-Brownhills

2

0

1

4

0

Birmingham, Edgbaston

3

3

5

3

1

Birmingham, Erdington

1

1

3

3

1

Birmingham, Hall Green

2

2

1

2

6

Birmingham, Hodge Hill

1

3

1

1

2

Birmingham, Ladywood

6

13

10

1

5

Birmingham, Northfield

1

0

6

2

3

Birmingham, Perry Barr

3

4

6

2

5

Birmingham, Selly Oak

3

2

5

5

1

Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small Heath

3

1

5

0

2

Birmingham, Yardley

0

2

5

3

1

Bromsgrove

8

4

6

3

8

Burton

10

4

8

7

5

Cannock Chase

5

3

0

5

2

Coventry, North-East

3

5

3

6

4

Coventry, North-West

1

5

3

1

0

Coventry, South

3

5

4

2

0

Dudley, North

3

2

2

7

1

Dudley, South

4

2

1

6

0

Halesowen and Rowley Regis

4

3

0

1

1

Hereford

4

5

4

9

8

Leominster

12

13

8

14

9

Lichfield

6

4

6

7

5

Ludlow

12

14

8

14

6

Meriden

6

6

4

2

4

Mid-Worcestershire

9

8

14

9

4

Newcastle-under-Lyme

2

5

5

5

4

North Shropshire

5

14

3

7

8

North Warwickshire

11

7

10

12

6

Nuneaton

5

6

9

9

5

Redditch

2

5

1

2

3

Rugby and Kenilworth

10

6

12

4

6

Shrewsbury and Atcham

5

7

7

4

5

Solihull

0

2

1

5

0

South Staffordshire

8

1

13

9

7

Stafford

5

6

10

7

6

Staffordshire, Moorlands

6

6

8

4

6

Stoke-on-Trent, Central

6

2

3

1

2

Stoke-on-Trent, North

1

4

6

1

1

Stoke-on-Trent, South

4

4

3

1

3

Stone

19

14

14

17

7

Stourbridge

1

3

4

0

2

Stratford-on-Avon

14

19

13

13

14

Sutton Coldfield

3

2

2

2

2

Tamworth

5

6

5

4

0

Telford

2

3

1

1

2

The Wrekin

5

6

7

4

4

Walsall, North

1

1

1

3

1

Walsall, South

4

4

7

4

3

Warley

4

1

5

0

1

Warwick and Leamington

9

2

3

5

12

West Bromwich, East

4

1

3

1

2

West Bromwich, West

7

1

4

1

2

West Worcestershire

9

6

11

4

9

Wolverhampton, North-East

3

2

1

2

2

Wolverhampton, South-East

0

3

8

2

4

Wolverhampton, South-West

6

7

1

2

3

Worcester

0

1

2

1

1

Wyre Forest

5

8

2

6

8

Total

286

279

304

262

225

(1) Based on 2004 parliamentary boundaries

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