NATIONAL ROAD VICTIM MONTH

Early day motion 1938, tabled 17 July 2007 by Bob Russell (Liberal Democrat). Signed by 46 members.

That this House acknowledges that August has been designated National Road Victim Month; regrets that 35,000 people have lost their lives on Britain's roads in the last 10 years; notes that 17th August marks the 111th anniversary of the first recorded fatality in Britain involving a motor vehicle, and that an estimated 30 million people have been killed around the world since then, with 1.3 million killed each year; and calls on the Government to implement further measures to reduce the 3,500 deaths and 500,000 injuries each year resulting from crashes on Britain's roads.

Signatures by party: Labour 23, Liberal Democrat 13, Conservative 3, DUP 3, Social Democratic and Labour Party 2, Plaid Cymru 1, Scottish National Party 1.