A34: Accidents

(asked on 26th September 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many accidents involving death or serious injury have occurred in each of the last five years for which figures are available on the A34 section of the junction with the M40 to its southern end; and in how many such accidents heavy goods vehicles were involved.


Answered by
Baroness Vere of Norbiton Portrait
Baroness Vere of Norbiton
Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury)
This question was answered on 7th October 2019

The number of fatal and serious accidents occurring on the A34 section of the junction with the M40 for the last five years for which figures are available is given in the table below. There is no geographical definition of the southern end, so the whole junction and the 100m section of the A34 leading to the junction have been included.

Number of fatal or serious reported road accidents on the A34 section of the junction with the M401, 2014 to 2018

Year

Number of accidents

2014

1

2015

0

2016

0

2017

0

2018

0

Source: DfT Stats19

1. Includes the 100m section of the A34 leading to the junction.

The serious accident which occurred at this junction in 2014 involved a car and a goods vehicle of unknown weight.

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