To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many statutory removals of vehicles have occurred on each section of motorway using an all-lane running configuration (a) since those configurations have been in use and (b) in each of the 10 years before those configurations were in use; and if he will make a statement.
Answered on
24 March 2016
The only “All Lane Running” sections of motorway are on the M25 between junctions 5 and 7, as well as junctions 23 to 27. These sections both opened in 2014.
Incidents that required vehicle recovery were logged by Highways England from October 2007. The data held by Highways England includes all removals such as recoveries arranged directly between motorists and their breakdown recovery company as well as statutory removals.
The total number of statutory removals occurring on these sections of the M25 between Oct 2007 and Dec 2015 is 3560.
The table below includes sections that have been opened in 2015.
Number of incidents involving recovery on M25 All Lane Running sections | ||||||||||
M25 All Lane Running sections | Oct - Dec 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | Grand Total |
M25 J23 and J24 | 4 | 15 | 16 | 23 | 18 | 21 | 12 | 15 | 30 | 154 |
M25 J24 and J23 | 5 | 23 | 24 | 16 | 23 | 21 | 7 | 29 | 38 | 186 |
M25 J24 and J25 | 10 | 49 | 53 | 62 | 56 | 56 | 12 | 51 | 82 | 431 |
M25 J25 and J24 | 7 | 43 | 35 | 49 | 54 | 45 | 12 | 71 | 68 | 384 |
M25 J25 and J26 | 6 | 30 | 26 | 31 | 39 | 41 | 17 | 13 | 68 | 271 |
M25 J26 and J25 | 8 | 30 | 21 | 29 | 27 | 34 | 11 | 7 | 31 | 198 |
M25 J26 and J27 | 8 | 22 | 19 | 48 | 27 | 34 | 34 | 17 | 40 | 249 |
M25 J27 and J26 | 4 | 17 | 8 | 17 | 27 | 34 | 37 | 13 | 40 | 197 |
M25 J6 and J7 | 2 | 50 | 13 | 9 | 14 | 6 | 22 | 6 | 14 | 136 |
M25 J5 and J6 | 10 | 48 | 40 | 60 | 53 | 66 | 131 | 64 | 89 | 561 |
M25 J7 and J6 | 4 | 23 | 20 | 34 | 29 | 29 | 43 | 20 | 15 | 217 |
M25 J6 and J5 | 15 | 89 | 47 | 83 | 49 | 72 | 94 | 50 | 77 | 576 |
Grand Total | 83 | 439 | 322 | 461 | 416 | 459 | 432 | 356 | 592 | 3,560 |