Roads: Accidents
(asked on 19th January 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many road traffic accidents in which a dog was injured were reported to the police in each of the last three years.
Answered by
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
This question was answered on 26th January 2016
The Department for Transport collates information on animals identified as carriageway hazards in reported personal injury road accidents. However, information on the kind of animal involved in accidents is not collected.
The number of reported personal injury road accidents involving animals1 in the carriageway, in Great Britain, 2012 – 20142, is shown in the following table.
Year | Accidents | |
2012 | 804 | |
2013 | 734 | |
2014 | 692 |
- Excludes ridden horses
- Data for 2015 is published summer 2016.