Roads: Accidents
(asked on 25th February 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information his Department holds on the number of road traffic incidents in which a vehicle was damaged and a pedestrian or cyclist was at fault in each of the last three years.
The Department only holds information on accidents involving personal injury. The number of reported personal injury road accidents where a contributory factor was allocated to a pedestrian or pedal cyclist is given in the tables below.
Number of reported personal injury road accidents where a contributory factor1 was allocated to a pedestrian: GB, 2011-2013
| 2011 | 15,185 | |
| 2012 | 14,454 | |
| 2013 | 13,481 |
1 Includes only injury accidents where a police officer attended the scene and in which a contributory factor was reported.
Number of reported personal injury road accidents where a contributory factor1 was allocated to a pedal cyclist: GB, 2011-2013
| 2011 | 7,028 |
| 2012 | 6,522 |
| 2013 | 6,699 |
1 Includes only injury accidents where a police officer attended the scene and in which a contributory factor was reported.
The figures for pedal cyclists will include accidents where the road environment contributed e.g. the road was slippery due to the weather and therefore may not be the fault of the pedal cyclist.
Data for 2014 is not available.