Cycling and Pedestrians: Accidents

(asked on 8th March 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many injuries have been caused to pedestrians by cyclists over the last five years; and what percentage of those injuries have been classified as (1) serious, or (2) slight.


Answered by
Baroness Vere of Norbiton Portrait
Baroness Vere of Norbiton
Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury)
This question was answered on 22nd March 2023

The number of pedestrian casualties in Great Britain injured in a collision with a pedal cyclist which was reported by police using the STATS19 system in each of the last 5 years for which data are available is shown in the table. Note however it is known that a majority of non-fatal collisions are not reported to police.

Year

Total injured casualties

Percentage with serious injury

Percentage with slight injury

2017

528

26%

74%

2018

481

32%

68%

2019

402

34%

66%

2020

304

35%

65%

2021

436

32%

68%

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