Cycling: Accidents
(asked on 11th September 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many accidents in England resulting in serious head injuries involved (a) cyclists and (b) cyclists under 16 in each of the last three years.
The number of reported personal injury road accidents in England involving (a) at least one seriously injured pedal cyclist and (b) at least one seriously injured pedal cyclist aged under 16 for the years 2011, 2012 and 2013 is given in the tables below.
Reported personal injury road accidents involving at least one seriously injured pedal cyclist: England, 2011-2013
2011 | 2,814 |
2012 | 2,960 |
2013 | 2,884 |
Reported personal injury road accidents involving at least one seriously injured pedal cyclist aged under 16: England, 2011-2013
2011 | 349 |
2012 | 275 |
2013 | 248 |
Information on the pedal cyclists who suffered serious head injuries as a result of an accident is not available from the STATS19 data that the department collects.
However, information on the medical consequences of pedal cycle casualties in road accidents in England can be obtained from hospital inpatient data. The most recent analysis for 2001-2010 suggests that 40 per cent of pedal cycle admissions were the result of head injuries.