Minibuses: Accidents

(asked on 15th September 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 10 September 2026 to Question 26992 on Road Traffic Accidents: Minibuses, how many of the reported traffic collisions with a contributory or road safety factor attributed to a minibus driver involved at least one fatality by year.


Answered by
Justin Madders Portrait
Justin Madders
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 15th October 2026

The total number of reported traffic collisions involving at least one fatality 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 year, are shown in the table below. These figures include only collisions where police attended the scene and at least one factor was recorded.

Year

Fatal collisions

2015

2

2016

5

2017

2

2018

7

2020

3

2021

4

2022

2

2023

1

2024

5

2025

1

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