Roads: Death
(asked on 30th October 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many fatal road traffic collisions were recorded in (a) Sussex and (b) England in (i) 2015, (ii) 2016, (iii) 2017, (iv) 2018, (v) 2019 and (vi) 2020 to date.
The number of fatal reported personal injury road accidents in the Sussex police force and England between 2015 and 2019 can be found in the table below.
The latest annual published statistics are for 2019. The final data on reported personal injury road accidents in Great Britain for 2020 will be published in September 2021.
Reported fatal road accidents, Sussex and England, 2015 to 2019 | |||||
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Year | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
Number of fatal road accidents in Sussex1 | 41 | 52 | 50 | 43 | 42 |
Number of fatal road accidents in England | 1,373 | 1,425 | 1,437 | 1,427 | 1,403 |
Source: DfT, STATS19 | |||||
1 Includes East Sussex, West Sussex and Brighton & Hove. | |||||