Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 22 September 2015
1616. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of road traffic accidents caused by old vehicles or where the age of the vehicle was a significant factor in the cause. [31355/15]
View answerThe Road Safety Authority has advised me as follows. Over the period 2007-2012, there were 1292 fatal collisions involving 1261 vehicles (cars, vans, taxis and goods vehicles). Of these, 40 vehicles had a defect.
The age of the vehicle is not recorded on the collision data collected by An Garda Síochána. However, where a vehicle registration number is available, the age of the vehicle can be derived.
Where the age of the vehicle was known, 39 vehicles involved in fatal collisions had a defect which may have contributed to the cause of the collision (2.5% of vehicles involved); 21 of these vehicles had a vehicle registration year in the range of 2000-2009; and the reminder (18) had a registration year prior to that. See the following table for further details of serious and minor injury collisions.
|
Vehicle Registration Year |
Number of vehicles in fatal collisions with defect, where age of vehicle was known |
Number of vehicles in serious injury collisions with defect, where age of vehicle was known |
Number of vehicles in minor injury collisions with defect, where age of vehicle was known |
|
2000-2009 |
21 |
16 |
109 |
|
Pre-2000* |
18 |
24 |
68 |
|
Total |
39 |
40 |
177 |
*Note: a small number of foreign registered vehicles are included in this category.
