Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Sugg on 21 January (HL1626), what factors are included in coming to the conclusion that a serious casualty involving a heavy goods vehicle costs £180,000.
The Department for Transport’s published Transport Analysis Guidance includes estimates of the cost of a serious casualty. The factors included are human costs including pain, grief and suffering; loss of output due to injury including earnings and non-wage payments; and the cost of ambulance and hospital treatment.