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Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many road traffic (a) accidents and (b) fatalities have occurred (i) on the A14 and (ii) elsewhere in Suffolk between the hours of 8pm and 8am in each year since 1997. [314877]

Paul Clark: The information requested is shown in the following table.

Reported personal injury road accidents( 1 ) and fatalities( 2 ) occurring between the hours of 20.00 and 08.00: 1997 to 2008
	Suffolk (excluding A14)		A14 (Suffolk section)
	Accidents	Fatalities	Accidents	Fatalities
1997	519	15	29	3
1998	526	4	23	1
1999	518	22	26	1
2000	502	21	33	4
2001	553	18	39	5
2002	543	19	50	3
2003	566	20	36	1
2004	518	16	37	3
2005	530	19	42	2
2006	484	19	37	2
2007	480	13	39	3
2008	431	13	29	0
(1) Reported accidents in which at least one person was injured. (2) Casualties in road accidents who were fatally injured.

Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many road traffic accidents have occurred in Suffolk on each day of the week in each year since 1997. [314878]

Paul Clark: The information requested is given in the following table:

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Reported personal injury road accidents in Suffolk by day of week: 1997 to 2008
Number of accidents
Year of accident	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday	Total
1997	308	328	357	323	385	295	228	2,224
1998	328	337	331	310	374	330	241	2,251
1999	339	340	327	327	362	314	289	2,298
2000	309	319	334	355	427	327	241	2,312
2001	382	348	338	328	386	332	242	2,356
2002	335	328	314	375	380	321	247	2,300
2003	356	343	308	356	393	298	287	2,341
2004	289	310	349	374	353	301	244	2,220
2005	337	319	361	325	377	283	235	2,237
2006	313	283	306	313	390	265	217	2,087
2007	320	330	309	297	341	263	216	2,076
2008	302	289	346	326	341	236	221	2,061

Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many road traffic accidents have occurred on the A14 in Suffolk on each day of the week in each year since 1997. [314879]

Paul Clark: The information requested is given in the following table:

Reported personal injury road accidents on the A14 in Suffolk by day of week: 199 7 to 2008
	Number of accidents
	Mon day	Tues day	Wed nesday	Thur sday	Fri day	Sat urday	Sun day	Total
1997	16	19	22	15	16	20	20	128
1998	18	16	20	11	22	18	18	123
1999	22	20	17	14	17	16	16	122
2000	19	27	24	28	14	15	11	138
2001	17	17	22	23	21	22	16	138
2002	26	28	20	20	27	21	15	157
2003	22	22	23	23	14	11	13	128
2004	17	20	25	23	21	20	17	143
2005	18	23	33	16	28	15	17	150
2006	21	22	24	12	20	11	9	119
2007	13	23	18	24	21	13	14	126
2008	25	15	24	20	25	4	13	126

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