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Table 13 Vehicles involved, traffic volumes and vehicle involvement rates, by vehicle type and severity of accident
Years: 1996 to 2006, and 1994-98 and 2002-2006 averages

(b) vehicles involved - all severities of accident
	Pedal cycle	Motor cycle	Car or taxi	Bus / coach or minibus	Light goods	Heavy goods	All ⁽¹⁾
(a) vehicles involved in fatal and serious accidents							number
1994-98 ave.	266	360	4,639	247	291	284	6,184
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	3,725	200	205	242	5,162
2001	178	473	3,558	206	182	272	4,966
2002	161	479	3,423	185	196	230	4,747
2003	149	438	3,179	193	167	247	4,450
2004	132	410	2,975	167	171	193	4,134
2005	138	410	2,771	173	167	194	3,958
2006	148	429	2,842	167	162	172	4,017
2002-06 ave.	146	433	3,038	177	173	207	4,261
1994-98 ave.	1,320	940	21,502	1,309	1,201	891	27,518
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	20,174	1,165	1,073	944	25,834
2000	900	1,155	19,873	1,243	984	924	25,553
2001	942	1,207	19,159	1,187	934	1,013	24,876
2002	852	1,200	18,697	1,174	858	999	24,154
2003	840	1,153	18,211	1,180	795	930	23,457
2004	793	1,033	18,194	1,240	975	800	23,400
2005	808	1,098	17,233	1,123	911	738	22,469
2006	807	1,091	16,865	1,067	925	698	21,962
2002-06 ave.	820	1,115	17,840	1,157	893	833	23,088
(c) traffic volumes ⁽²⁾							million vehicle kilometres
1994-98 ave.	235	207	30,242	576	4,088	2,305	37,653
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
2006	251	300	34,302	596	5,705	2,726	43,880
2002-06 ave.	245	308	33,562	610	5,270	2,579	42,575
(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
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	0.10	0.11
2003	0.60	1.34	0.10	0.30	0.03	0.10	0.11
2004	0.57	1.33	0.09	0.28	0.03	0.07	0.10
2005	0.57	1.31	0.08	0.30	0.03	0.07	0.09
2006	0.59	1.43	0.08	0.28	0.03	0.06	0.09
2002-06 ave.	0.60	1.40	0.09	0.29	0.03	0.08	0.10
(e) vehicle involvement rates: all severities of accident							per million vehicle kilometres
1994-98 ave.	5.62	4.54	0.71	2.27	0.29	0.39	0.73
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	4.11	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	3.34	0.54	2.09	0.18	0.31	0.55
2005	3.32	3.51	0.51	1.92	0.17	0.28	0.53
2006	3.22	3.64	0.49	1.79	0.16	0.26	0.50
2002-06 ave.	3.35	3.62	0.53	1.90	0.17	0.32	0.54

(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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