Roads: Accidents
(asked on 23rd June 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many road accidents involving tractors there were in Herefordshire in 2019.
Detailed final statistics on reported personal injury road accidents in Great Britain for 2019 will be published in September 2020. The latest annual published statistics are for 2018.
The number of reported personal injury road accidents involving scooters and tractors in Herefordshire, in 2018 can be found in the below table:
Reported personal injury road accidents, by road user type involved, Herefordshire, 2018 | |
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Road user type involved | Number of accidents |
Scooter1 | 1 |
Tractor2 | 6 |
Source: DfT, STATS19 | |
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1. Scooters are not one of the designated vehicle types collected in a STATS19 reportable accidents. As such they can only be identified by using a free text field or where the vehicle type includes the word scooter. The only scooter type recorded in Herefordshire in 2018 is mobility scooter. | |
2. Tractors are not one of the designated vehicle types collected in a STATS19 reportable accidents. As such they can only be identified by linking to other data sources. Vehicles that have a valid registration mark are matched to the DVLA database, which allows additional information to be linked to the records kept by DfT. For this analysis DVLA body types included are agricultural tractor, station tractor and tractor excavator, and the only type excluded was tractor units used for articulated lorries. The only results in body type analysis recorded in Herefordshire in 2018 was for agricultural tractors. | |