Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 356: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of road fatalities and accidents in 2005 and in each previous year which involved vehicles being driven by those who were working at the time of the crash. [13204/06]

Seymour Crawford (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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Question 362: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of road deaths which occurred on a county basis in the years 2000 and 2005; his views on whether the Border region have more problems; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13530/06]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 356 and 362 together.

Statistics relating to road accidents, based on information provided by the Garda Síochána, are published by the National Roads Authority, NRA, in its annual road accident facts reports. The most recent report, entitled Road Collision Facts, relates to 2004 and is available in the Oireachtas Library and on the NRA website. The following table shows the total number of road deaths per annum between 2000 and 2005:

The Road Collision Facts reports do not provide a breakdown of the number of road users killed in traffic collisions who were working at the time of the collision. The statistics on the number of persons killed in each county from 2000 to 2004 are available in Road Collision Facts 2004 at www.nra.ie. Those reports also contain details of collision rates per thousand population, per thousand registered vehicles and per 10 million vehicle-kilometres of travel for each county. Statistics relating to 2005 are not yet fully analysed or authenticated.

The statistics do not in general indicate greater problems in the Border regions. The counties which have shown the highest number of collisions per population, the highest number of collisions per 1,000 registered vehicles, and the highest number of collisions per 10 million vehicle kilometres of travel, from 2000 to 2004, include Cavan, Longford, Louth, Cork, Leitrim, Waterford, Carlow and Dublin.