Cycling: Greater Manchester
(asked on 24th October 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many cyclists were (a) injured and (b) killed in road traffic accidents on public roads in (i) Leigh and (ii) Greater Manchester in each of the last five years.
The table below gives the number of cyclists injured and killed in reported road traffic accidents, on public roads, in (i) Leigh Parliamentary constituency and (ii) Greater Manchester from 2011 – 2015.
Accident Year | (i) Leigh | (ii) Greater Manchester | |||||||
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Killed | Serious | Slight | Total | Killed | Serious | Slight | Total |
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2011 | 0 | 5 | 13 | 18 | 5 | 98 | 667 | 770 |
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2012 | 0 | 3 | 19 | 22 | 1 | 104 | 506 | 611 |
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2013 | 0 | 4 | 13 | 17 | 1 | 91 | 477 | 569 |
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2014 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 102 | 512 | 617 |
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2015 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 3 | 72 | 338 | 413 |
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Greater Manchester has been defined using the following local authorities (highway authorities): Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan.