Tony Gregory (Dublin Central, Independent)
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Question 290: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of accidents involving trucks in 2004 and to date in 2005; the percentage of those accidents involving trucks which resulted in fatalities or injuries in 2004 and to date in 2005. [36407/05]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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Statistics relating to road accidents, based on information provided by the Garda Síochána, are published by the National Roads Authority in its annual road accident facts reports. The most recent report, now entitled Road Collision Facts, relates to 2003 and is available on the NRA website. Reports relating to previous years are available in the Oireachtas Library.

The reports give details of the number of single and two-vehicle collisions involving goods vehicles. In 2003, the latest year for which data are available, there was a total of 1,007 single-vehicle and two-vehicle fatal and injury collisions involving goods vehicles. Of those collisions, 80 or 8% of the total resulted in fatalities. Figures relating to 2004 have not yet been published but will be available shortly. Figures relating to 2005 will not be available until the NRA has fully analysed and authenticated the 2005 statistics.