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4 February 1974
Mr Ray Carter (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many notified road accidents have occurred in Hong Kong in each of the past five years; how many of these accidents caused injuries; and what number of these cases produced prosecutions and convictions.
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MR PETER BLAKER
The table below shows road accidents notified to the police during the calendar years 1969 to 1973. Slight accidents were those where no injury was caused. Serious accidents were those where an injury was caused, Figures for convictions for road traffic accidents are classified by the type of offence. They do not therefore show whether injuries were caused in individual cases. That information, and the figures for prosecutions, could not be obtained without prolonged research. The table also shows con- victions for the more serious traffic offences (defined as dangerous and careless driving, driving without a licence or third party insurance, speeding, drunken driving, failing to stop after an accident, forgery of a driving licence and driving whilst disqualified), and for all traffic offences. The drop in the latter in 1972 and 1973 was caused by the introduction of a fixed penalty "ticket" system for parking offences, which are thus excluded for those years.
ACCIDENTS OPIFIED
SURICUS
ALL
TRAFFIC
TRAFFIC
Fatal Serious Slight Total
OFFLICES
OFFENCES
1969 514
3,070
5,891
10,175
174,550
1970
267
4,908
6,555 11,730
21,525
170,814
1971
562
4,346
7,572
12,280
27,636
159,494
1972
414
4,379
7,705
12,798
24,35
9/4,286
1975
455
4,819
7,240
12,714
28,375
133,086
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