Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many (a) fatal and (b) serious injuries were suffered by (i) male and (ii) female cyclists in each of the last 10 years.
The number of reported a) fatal and b) seriously injured male and female cyclist casualties in Great Britain for each of the last 10 years are shown in the table below:
Reported fatal or seriously injured cyclists by gender, GB: 2003-2012 |
Number of Casualties | |||||||
a) Fatal | b) Serious | ||||||
1)Male | 2)Female | TOTAL | 1)Male | 2)Female | TOTAL | ||
2003 | 89 | 25 | 114 | 1,916 | 380 | 2,296 | |
2004 | 107 | 27 | 134 | 1,816 | 358 | 2,174 | |
2005 | 131 | 17 | 148 | 1,811 | 399 | 2,210 | |
2006 | 122 | 24 | 146 | 1,898 | 398 | 2,296 | |
2007 | 112 | 24 | 136 | 1,978 | 450 | 2,428 | |
2008 | 97 | 18 | 115 | 2,009 | 441 | 2,450 | |
2009 | 83 | 21 | 104 | 2,156 | 450 | 2,606 | |
2010 | 85 | 26 | 111 | 2,162 | 498 | 2,660 | |
2011 | 85 | 22 | 107 | 2,536 | 549 | 3,085 | |
2012 | 109 | 9 | 118 | 2,650 | 572 | 3,222 |
Data for 2013 will be available in June 2014