Roads: Accidents

(asked on 5th February 2015) - View Source

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 Portrait
Robert Goodwill
This question was answered on 10th February 2015

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

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