Rescue Services
(asked on 6th October 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many fatalities occurred around the UK coastline in each of the last five years to which coastguard services were called.
This question was answered on 16th October 2017
The number of incidents that included a fatality, in the UK search and rescue region when Her Majesty’s Coastguard was called, in each of the last five years is shown below:
Year | Fatalities |
2012 | 416 |
2013 | 427 |
2014 | 424 |
2015 | 407 |
2016 | 381 |