Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 111459

Motorways: Accidents

Tabled: 6 February 2026

Answered: 16 February 2026

Question

Mr Richard Holden

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the provision of central reservation barriers on the National Highways motorway and trunk road network, how many crossover accidents, where vehicles have breached the central reservation, occu

Answer

Simon Lightwood

Data on road traffic casualties on the roads in Great Britain is collected via the STATS19 process. The most recently available STATS19 dataset is for 2024 and was published by DfT in September 2025:https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/cb7ae6f0-4be6-4935-9277-...

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