Motorcycles: Accidents
(asked on 9th November 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made on the proportion of motorcycle fatalities that occurred on (a) urban roads, (b) rural roads and (c) motorways in each year between 2014 and 2017.
The table below provides the number and percentage of motorcycle fatalities by road class in Great Britain for the years 2014 to 2017, which are available in published table RAS30018 at https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/743613/ras30018.ods.
Reported motorcycle fatalities by road class, Great Britain, 2014 to 2017 |
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| Number | Per cent | Number | Per cent | Number | Per cent | Number | Per cent |
Urban | 97 | 29 | 116 | 32 | 101 | 32 | 95 | 27 |
Rural | 237 | 70 | 241 | 66 | 211 | 66 | 248 | 71 |
Motorways | 5 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 2 |
All roads | 339 | 100 | 365 | 100 | 319 | 100 | 349 | 100 |
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| Source: DfT STATS19 | |