Roads: Horses
(asked on 14th January 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many accidents involving horses on public highways were recorded in (a) each of the last 10 years and (b) the last 12 months.
Data on personal injury road accidents reported to the police held by the Department for Transport includes information on horses either as a vehicle (when they are ridden) or as a carriageway hazard for the accident (when they are not ridden and in the carriageway). When they are involved in an accident as a carriageway hazard, horses cannot be separated out from other animals.
The number of accidents involving ridden horses and where ‘animal (excluding ridden horses) in carriageway’ was recorded as a carriageway hazard on public highways in Great Britain is shown in the tables below.
By year, 2009-2018
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Year | Accidents involving ridden horses | Accidents where ‘animal (except ridden horse) in carriageway’ was recorded as a carriageway hazard |
2009 | 102 | 834 |
2010 | 126 | 864 |
2011 | 135 | 851 |
2012 | 127 | 804 |
2013 | 108 | 734 |
2014 | 115 | 692 |
2015 | 101 | 610 |
2016 | 103 | 556 |
2017 | 84 | 477 |
2018 | 73 | 376 |
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| Source: DfT, STATS19 |
By month, 2018
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Month | Accidents involving ridden horses | Accidents where ‘animal (except ridden horse) in the carriageway’ was recorded as a carriageway hazard |
January | 3 | 23 |
February | 3 | 31 |
March | 8 | 22 |
April | 9 | 27 |
May | 6 | 38 |
June | 7 | 27 |
July | 5 | 30 |
August | 4 | 43 |
September | 12 | 33 |
October | 8 | 36 |
November | 2 | 33 |
December | 6 | 33 |
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| Source: DfT, STATS19 |