Roads: Accidents

(asked on 14th October 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what date his Department holds on the number of incidents involving (a) lorries and (b) buses that related to wheel loss.


Answered by
Andrew Jones Portrait
Andrew Jones
This question was answered on 21st October 2016

The police-reported personal injury accident data does not include anything that specifies whether an accident resulted from wheel loss.

The closest piece of information in the statistics is the contributory factor of ‘tyres illegal, defective or under inflated’. A total of 19 heavy goods vehicles and two buses or coaches in Great Britain had this contributory factor in 2015.

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