House of Assembly: Wednesday, April 30, 2008

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P-PLATE DRIVERS

317 Dr McFETRIDGE (Morphett) (20 November 2007). How many motor vehicle accidents involving P-plate drivers occurred in each year since 2000-01?

The Hon. P.F. CONLON (Elder—Minister for Transport, Minister for Infrastructure, Minister for Energy): The Minister for Road Safety has provided the following information:

The number of crashes that involved drivers with a provisional licence from 2000-07 are as follows:

Year Number of fatal crashes Number of serious injury crashes
2000 24 189
2001 17 185
2002 13 162
2003 17 162
2004 13 143
2005 16 120
2006 10 128
2007 15 162


The 2007 data is preliminary and subject to change, with serious injury crashes reported to the 31October 2007.