Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 20 April 2017 to Question 70174, on A19: accidents, what steps he is taking to reduce the number of accidents on the A19 between Seaham and the Testos roundabout.

Traffic modelling undertaken to date forecasts that the A19 Testos scheme being delivered by Highways England will result in a 28% reduction in accidents at the Testos roundabout with an overall accident saving across the affected network of 2%, and a 1.1% reduction in the number of total killed or seriously injured casualties on this part of the network. This equates to a reduction of 268 accidents over the assessment period.