Buses: Accidents
(asked on 27th March 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many (a) pedestrians and (b) cyclists were (i) injured and (ii) killed in accidents with buses in the last year for which information is available.
The latest and most recent data available is from 2016. The number of casualties resulting in reported personal injury road accidents involving buses/coaches is given in the table below:
The number of casualties resulting in reported personal injury accident involving buses/coaches, GB: 2016 | |||||||||
| Cyclists1 | Pedestrians2 | |||||||
| Killed | Serious | Slight | Total | Killed | Serious | Slight | Total |
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2016 | 3 | 39 | 219 | 261 | 26 | 193 | 633 | 852 |
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| Source: STATS19 data |
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1 Accidents involving two vehicles (a bus/coach and pedal cycle) | |||||||||
2 Accidents involving one bus/coach and 1 or more pedestrians. | |||||||||
Information is published in Reported Road Casualties Great Britain: annual report 2016 table RAS40004 | |||||||||