Minibuses: Accidents

(asked on 2nd September 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 6 July 2026 to Question 13947 on Road Traffic Accidents: Minibuses, how many casualties in reported road traffic collisions involving a minibus, where a contributory factor was attributed to the minibus driver, were (a) fatalities, (b) seriously injured and (c) slightly injured in each of the last ten years.


Answered by
Justin Madders Portrait
Justin Madders
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 9th September 2026

The number of casualties in reported road traffic collisions in Great Britain, as reported by the police using the STATS19 system, with a contributory or road safety factor attributed to a minibus driver, broken down by severity, are shown in the table below. These figures include only collisions where police attended the scene and at least one factor was recorded.

Year

Killed

Serious

Slight

2016

6

50

283

2017

2

44

250

2018

13

45

202

2019

0

34

204

2020

3

22

91

2021

4

26

89

2022

2

41

143

2023

2

39

153

2024

5

34

151

2025

2

49

136

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