Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many road accidents occurred on the (a) A66 between Workington and Keswick, (b) A595 and (c) A596 in each of the last 10 years; and how many of those accidents resulted in fatalities.
The table below gives the total number of reported personal injury road accidents, total number of reported fatal accidents and total number of reported fatalities for the (a) A66 between the junction with the A596 in Workington and the roundabout junction with the A591 north of Keswick, (b) A595 and (c) A596 for each year from 2004 to 2013.
Year | Road | Total reported accidents | Of which fatal accidents | Fatalities |
2004 | A66 | 54 | 0 | 0 |
2005 | A66 | 60 | 2 | 3 |
2006 | A66 | 51 | 1 | 1 |
2007 | A66 | 51 | 2 | 2 |
2008 | A66 | 43 | 0 | 0 |
2009 | A66 | 37 | 1 | 1 |
2010 | A66 | 42 | 4 | 6 |
2011 | A66 | 38 | 1 | 1 |
2012 | A66 | 30 | 2 | 2 |
2013 | A66 | 41 | 0 | 0 |
2004 | A595 | 180 | 6 | 6 |
2005 | A595 | 141 | 5 | 6 |
2006 | A595 | 156 | 5 | 7 |
2007 | A595 | 140 | 3 | 3 |
2008 | A595 | 113 | 3 | 7 |
2009 | A595 | 118 | 2 | 2 |
2010 | A595 | 110 | 6 | 8 |
2011 | A595 | 94 | 3 | 3 |
2012 | A595 | 106 | 4 | 4 |
2013 | A595 | 96 | 2 | 2 |
2004 | A596 | 54 | 2 | 3 |
2005 | A596 | 51 | 0 | 0 |
2006 | A596 | 59 | 0 | 0 |
2007 | A596 | 60 | 1 | 1 |
2008 | A596 | 50 | 3 | 3 |
2009 | A596 | 49 | 1 | 1 |
2010 | A596 | 30 | 0 | 0 |
2011 | A596 | 35 | 1 | 1 |
2012 | A596 | 53 | 1 | 1 |
2013 | A596 | 32 | 2 | 4 |
Statistics for 2014 will be available from 25 June.