Roads: Suicide
(asked on 17th October 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 7 July 2016 to Question 42206 on roads: suicide, how many suicides or attempted suicides were recorded on the strategic road network from 1 July to 31 December 2016.
This question was answered on 25th October 2017
Highways England have confirmed that between 1 July 2016 and 3 September 2016, 267 incidents were recorded as suicides or attempted suicides on the strategic road network.
Highways England are currently moving to a new incident management system and are only able to provide data up to 3 September 2016 at this time. The complete figures will be validated as soon as possible.