Roads: Sussex
(asked on 21st January 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 6 November 2020 to Question 109771 on roads: death, how many of the accidents in Sussex were found to involve anti-social driving.
Data on fatal road accidents is collected via the STATS19 reporting system. It is not possible to directly identify accidents involving anti-social driving.
As part of the STATS19 collection, police officers attending an accident are able to assign contributory factors, which are grouped into nine categories, including ‘injudicious action’. The injudicious action category includes factors related to speed, following too close or disobeying road signs or markings.
Of the 224 fatal reported personal injury road accidents in the Sussex police force between 2015 and 2019 where a police officer attended the scene and at least one contributory factor was assigned, 40 had at least one ‘injudicious action’ factor assigned.
The number of contributory factors assigned in each category is shown in the table.
Contributory factors assigned to fatal reported personal injury road accidents: Sussex police force 2015-20191
| Number | Percentage |
Road environment contributed | 17 | 8% |
Vehicle defects | 3 | 1% |
Injudicious action | 40 | 18% |
Driver/Rider error or reaction | 140 | 63% |
Impairment or distraction | 77 | 34% |
Behaviour or inexperience | 72 | 32% |
Vision affected by external factors | 5 | 2% |
Pedestrian only (casualty or uninjured) | 36 | 16% |
Special codes | 10 | 4% |
Any contributory factor | 224 | 100% |
1 Accidents where a police officer attended the scene and at least one contributory factor was assigned. Factors can be assigned in more than one category for an accident.