PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Roads: Accidents (24 June 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the number of traffic accidents in which the use of a satellite navigation system has been a contributing factor in the last five years.

Asked by:
Mark Tami (Labour)

The information requested is not collected by the Department. However, related information on reported accidents where a ‘distraction in vehicle’ contributory factor was allocated is published.

The number of reported personal injury road accidents by severity where a ‘distraction in vehicle’ contributory factor was allocated in the last five years is given in the following table:

Reported road accidents allocated a distraction in vehicle contributory factor, GB: 2009 - 2013

			Number of accidents
Year	Fatal	Serious	Slight	Total
2009	62	392	2,488	2,942
2010	60	380	2,532	2,972
2011	75	417	2,640	3,132
2012	61	373	2,474	2,908
2013	84	425	2,486	2,995

Answered by:
Andrew Jones (Conservative)
1 July 2015