M1: South Yorkshire
(asked on 12th March 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many incidents in which a vehicle was stranded in a live lane have taken place between junctions 32 and 35A of the M1 in the three years prior to March 2017.
The table below records all breakdown incidents that have been recorded in a live lane between junctions 32 and 35A of the M1, in both directions in the three years prior to March 2017.
Month/Year | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
January | 11 | 6 | 65 | 42 |
February | 5 | 5 | 75 | 58 |
March | 10 | 4 | 80 | 51 |
April | 20 | 3 | 75 | 53 |
May | 8 | 15 | 79 | 63 |
June | 12 | 19 | 72 | 77 |
July | 15 | 23 | 62 | 67 |
August | 19 | 26 | 64 | 64 |
September | 13 | 27 | 59 | 49 |
October | 11 | 39 | 52 | 66 |
November | 17 | 55 | 45 | 71 |
December | 26 | 46 | 57 | 68 |
There has been significant interest in the number of live lane breakdowns on motorways. It is important to note that live lane breakdown data is not a reliable safety indicator to correlate with serious or fatal casualties.