Asked by: Lord Hogan-Howe (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask His Majesty's Government what information (1) the Home Office, and (2) other departments, have regarding the number of casualties caused by pedal cyclists and e-bikes to pedestrians in the past 20 years.
Answered by Lord Davies of Gower - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The Department for Transport publishes road casualty statistics based on personal injury road collisions reported to the police via the STATS19 reporting system.
Electrically assisted pedal cycles are included in the pedal cycle category depending on their power output.
The table below shows the annual number of pedestrian casualties where they were in collision with a pedal cycle from 2003 to 2022 (the latest year that data is available for). There may also be other vehicles involved in the overall collision.
Year | Casualties in collisions with pedal cycles |
2003 | 259 |
2004 | 236 |
2005 | 279 |
2006 | 226 |
2007 | 229 |
2008 | 261 |
2009 | 292 |
2010 | 341 |
2011 | 406 |
2012 | 432 |
2013 | 466 |
2014 | 498 |
2015 | 444 |
2016 | 460 |
2017 | 531 |
2018 | 482 |
2019 | 408 |
2020 | 308 |
2021 | 437 |
2022 | 462 |
Asked by: Lord Hogan-Howe (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many pedestrians received treatment for injuries caused by bicycle collisions in each year from 2010 to 2023.
Answered by Lord Davies of Gower - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The information requested is not held by the Department.
Asked by: Lord Hogan-Howe (Crossbench - Life peer)
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 - Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury)
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% |
Asked by: Lord Hogan-Howe (Crossbench - Life peer)
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 - Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury)
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 |