Waste Disposal
(asked on 20th February 2026) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many deaths involving refuse collection vehicles have been recorded in each of the last five years.
This question was answered on 26th February 2026
Deaths in reported road collisions, on public roads (including footways) in Great Britian are based on data supplied to the Department by police forces via a collection known as STATS19.
The latest figures available are for 2024, and figures for the last 5 years are shown in the table.
Year | Deaths in collisions involving a refuse collection vehicle |
2020 | 6 |
2021 | 6 |
2022 | 6 |
2023 | 2 |
2024 | 4 |
Collisions on private roads or car parks are not included in the statistics.