Roads: Accidents

(asked on 8th March 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many road traffic collisions involving a cyclist and a pedestrian were reported to the police in England and Wales in each of the last five years; and what was the recorded severity of the injuries resulting from those collisions.


Answered by
Baroness Vere of Norbiton Portrait
Baroness Vere of Norbiton
Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury)
This question was answered on 20th March 2023

The number of reported personal injury collisions between a pedal cyclist and a pedestrian in England and Wales, and the resulting casualties by severity of injury, in each of the last 5 years for which data are available is shown in the table.

Year

Total collisions

Total casualties

Fatalities

Seriously injured casualties

Slightly injured casualties

2017

488

626

4

147

475

2018

428

544

1

159

384

2019

362

448

4

144

300

2020

278

343

4

112

227

2021

384

462

0

140

322

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