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 |