Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the (a) number and (b) proportion of accidents was on UK roads that involved non-UK registered (i) lorries and (ii) other vehicles in each year between 2010 and 2014.

The Department does not hold information that allows the identification of foreign registered vehicles in reported road traffic accidents. However, the accident record does include information on left hand drive vehicles. The Department uses this as a proxy for foreign vehicles and recognises that there will be some UK registered vehicles that are left hand drive (for example dust carts and road sweepers) which are included in the figures.

The Department only holds information on reported personal-injury accidents on public roads (including footways) in Great Britain, which became known to the police.

i) The attached table shows the number of reported personal injury road accidents in Great Britain involving at least one heavy goods vehicle as well as the number involving at least one left hand drive heavy goods vehicle for the years 2010 to 2013.

ii) The table also shows the number of reported personal injury road accidents in Great Britain involving at least one of the shown vehicle types split by whether the vehicle was left hand drive (except for pedal cyclists and motor cyclists).

Data for 2014 will be available in June 2015.