Ruth Coppinger (Dublin West, Socialist Party)
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1616. To ask 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]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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​The 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; while the reminder (18) had a registration year prior to that. See below table for further details for serious and minor injury collisions.