To ask the Minister for Infrastructure (i) to detail the main accident blackspots in East Antrim; and (ii) what action her Department is taking to reduce accidents in these areas.

My Department routinely carries out a review of collision cluster sites when developing the Collision Remedial programme that sits within the wider Local Transport and Safety Measures (LTSM) programme. This review seeks to identify sites where 4 or more collisions have occurred within a three year period to determine if the application of appropriate road safety engineering measures would help to reduce the number and severity of collisions.

A number of sites within the East Antrim constituency met the threshold of 4 or more collisions however, when the nature and severity of the collisions and causation factors were considered, further remedial measures were not deemed appropriate. Therefore there are no sites currently being taken forward in East Antrim under the Collision Remedial programme however a further review of collisions is scheduled to take place within the coming months when the latest collision statistics collated by the PSNI are made available.