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Table 13 Vehicles involved, traffic volumes and vehicle involvement rates, by vehicle type and severity of accident
Years: 1995 to 2005, and 1994-98 and 2001-2005 averages

(a) vehicles involved in fatal and serious accidents							number
	Pedal cycle	Motor cycle	Car or taxi	Bus / coach or minibus	Light goods	Heavy goods	All ⁽¹⁾
1994-98 ave.	266	360	4,639	247	291	284	6,184
1995	316	403	4,992	268	343	322	6,739
1996	235	310	4,215	227	262	243	5,585
1997	224	351	4,328	207	245	260	5,705
1998	222	376	4,300	220	248	246	5,707
1999	206	438	3,981	223	234	249	5,423
2000	180	503	3,724	200	205	242	5,161
2001	178	473	3,558	206	182	272	4,966
2002	160	478	3,415	185	196	228	4,735
2003	149	438	3,174	193	167	245	4,443
2004	132	401	2,962	166	171	193	4,111
2005	138	410	2,767	172	166	192	3,952
2001-05 ave.	151	440	3,175	184	176	226	4,441
(b) vehicles involved - all severities of accident
1994-98 ave.	1,320	940	21,502	1,309	1,201	891	27,518
1995	1,361	975	21,084	1,277	1,227	961	27,232
1996	1,346	867	20,914	1,235	1,137	805	26,676
1997	1,309	951	22,340	1,243	1,143	853	28,207
1998	1,167	972	21,922	1,326	1,189	847	27,781
1999	1,062	1,032	20,175	1,165	1,073	944	25,835
2000	900	1,155	19,869	1,243	984	924	25,549
2001	942	1,207	19,159	1,187	934	1,013	24,876
2002	852	1,198	18,693	1,174	858	999	24,148
2003	840	1,153	18,200	1,180	795	928	23,444
2004	793	1,022	18,152	1,239	971	798	23,336
2005	807	1,099	17,181	1,120	907	733	22,409
2001-05 ave.	847	1,136	18,277	1,180	893	894	23,643
(c) traffic volumes ⁽²⁾							million vehicle kilometres
1994-98 ave.	235	207	30,242	576	4,088	2,305	37,653
1995	240	203	29,646	565	3,832	2,250	36,736
1996	236	202	30,429	581	4,022	2,308	37,777
1997	235	210	30,900	597	4,284	2,357	38,582
1998	228	217	31,154	601	4,557	2,412	39,169
1999	238	242	31,589	613	4,657	2,431	39,770
2000	242	250	31,443	599	4,591	2,436	39,561
2001	236	261	31,904	604	4,662	2,398	40,065
2002	250	292	33,127	630	4,828	2,408	41,535
2003	249	327	33,228	646	5,076	2,511	42,038
2004	232	309	33,674	593	5,283	2,615	42,705
2005	243	313	33,478	586	5,460	2,637	42,718
2001-05 ave.	242	301	33,082	612	5,062	2,514	41,812
(d) vehicle involvement rates: fatal and serious accidents							per million vehicle kilometres
1994-98 ave.	1.13	1.74	0.15	0.43	0.07	0.12	0.16
1995	1.32	1.98	0.17	0.47	0.09	0.14	0.18
1996	1.00	1.53	0.14	0.39	0.07	0.11	0.15
1997	0.95	1.67	0.14	0.35	0.06	0.11	0.15
1998	0.97	1.73	0.14	0.37	0.05	0.10	0.15
1999	0.87	1.81	0.13	0.36	0.05	0.10	0.14
2000	0.74	2.02	0.12	0.33	0.04	0.10	0.13
2001	0.76	1.81	0.11	0.34	0.04	0.11	0.12
2002	0.64	1.64	0.10	0.29	0.04	0.09	0.11
2003	0.60	1.34	0.10	0.30	0.03	0.10	0.11
2004	0.57	1.30	0.09	0.28	0.03	0.07	0.10
2005	0.57	1.31	0.08	0.29	0.03	0.07	0.09
2001-05 ave.	0.62	1.46	0.10	0.30	0.03	0.09	0.11
(e) vehicle involvement rates: all severities of accident							per million vehicle kilometers
1994-98 ave.	5.62	4.54	0.71	2.27	0.29	0.39	0.73
1995	5.67	4.80	0.71	2.26	0.32	0.43	0.74
1996	5.71	4.29	0.69	2.13	0.28	0.35	0.71
1997	5.57	4.54	0.72	2.08	0.27	0.36	0.73
1998	5.12	4.48	0.70	2.20	0.26	0.35	0.71
1999	4.46	4.27	0.64	1.90	0.23	0.39	0.65
2000	3.72	4.63	0.63	2.07	0.21	0.38	0.65
2001	4.00	4.62	0.60	1.97	0.20	0.42	0.62
2002	3.41	4.10	0.56	1.86	0.18	0.41	0.58
2003	3.37	3.52	0.55	1.83	0.16	0.37	0.56
2004	3.42	3.30	0.54	2.09	0.18	0.31	0.55
2005	3.32	3.51	0.51	1.91	0.17	0.28	0.52
2001-05 ave.	3.50	3.78	0.55	1.93	0.18	0.36	0.57

(1) Includes a small number of 'unknown' and 'other' types of vehicles.
(2) There may be slight differences between the vehicle types used for road accident statistics and those used for the traffic estimates.

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