Motorways: Accidents
(asked on 3rd March 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish the total number of driving deaths on smart motorways in each of the last five years.
The Smart Motorway Safety Evidence Stocktake and Action Plan, published by the Department in March 2020, provides a table in Annex D, page 76, showing the number of reported fatal casualties between 2015 and 2018. This is reproduced here:
Road Class | Number of Reported Fatal Casualties | |||
2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | |
Conventional Motorway¹ | 81 | 72 | 83 | 67 |
Controlled Motorway¹ | 6 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
Dynamic Hard Shoulder¹ | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
All Lane Running¹ | 0 | 1 | 4 | 10 |
All SRN ‘A’ Roads² | 132 | 154 | 145 | 165 |
Sources: 1 - STATS19, Highways England Statistics on motorway fatal casualties in England from 2015-18. 2 - STATS19, DfT Statistics on fatal casualties on the Strategic Road Network in England from 2015-18
The latest strategic safety evidence, which includes data for 2019, will be published as part of the one-year stocktake progress update report.