Roads: Accidents
(asked on 29th October 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many road incidents involving horses have been reported in each of the last five years; and how many of those incidents resulted in (a) injury and (b) death to (i) riders, (ii) drivers and (iii) horses.
The number of reported personal injury road collisions involving horses and the numbers of killed or injured casualties in these collisions by road user type are shown in the table:
Year | Collisions involving horses | Killed horse riders | Injured horse riders | Killed drivers or riders (excluding horse riders) | Injured drivers or riders (excluding horse riders) |
2020 | 82 | 1 | 78 | 0 | 4 |
2021 | 78 | 0 | 76 | 0 | 2 |
2022 | 72 | 1 | 70 | 0 | 3 |
2023 | 53 | 0 | 52 | 0 | 5 |
2024 | 63 | 0 | 66 | 0 | 5 |
STATS19 only records horses as vehicles and therefore the number of killed or injured horses cannot be calculated.