Asked by: Meg Munn (Labour (Co-op) - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 21 January 2015 to Question 220690, in how many of the accidents was the vehicle involved a large goods vehicle; and how many fatalities were caused by each such accident.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The number of fatal road accidents in which a driver of Heavy Goods Vehicles (over 3.5 tonnes) had “Fatigue” as contributory factor together with the number of fatalities resulting from those accidents is given below:
Year | Number of fatal accidents |
| Number of fatalities |
2011 | 9 |
| 10 |
2012 | 8 |
| 9 |
2013 | 10 |
| 11 |
Asked by: Meg Munn (Labour (Co-op) - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many fatal road traffic accidents were caused by drivers falling asleep at the wheel in each of the last three years.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The Department does not collect information specifically on drivers falling asleep at the wheel. However, the Department does hold information on the number of accidents where the attending police officer judged that driver fatigue contributed to the cause of the accident. The table below provides the number of fatal road traffic accidents that were reported to the police in which at least one driver was allocated the contributory factor of fatigue for 2011 to 2013.
Year | Number of fatal accidents |
2011 | 80 |
2012 | 59 |
2013 | 68 |