Boating: Accidents
(asked on 8th October 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 4 September 2018 to Question 170303 on Boating: Accidents, if he will publish the data held by the Department on the number of incidents involving a fatality where alcohol was believed to be a factor.
Since January 2016, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency has recorded data taken from Coroners’ Reports that are in the public domain about boating accidents involving a fatality and where the Coroner has concluded that alcohol was a factor.
Figures held by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency are as per table below
| Total Number of Boating Fatalities | Those Involving Alcohol |
2016 | 8 | 1 |
2017 | 8 | 5 |
No figures are yet available from Coroners’ for 2018.