Roads: Accidents
(asked on 8th October 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many people were killed or injured in crashes where the driver failed to stop at the scene since 2017, and how many of those crashes resulted in a prosecution.
Data on road injury collisions are reported by police using the STATS19 system. The number of casualties involved in collisions where the driver failed to stop at the scene in each year since 2017 are shown in the table below broken down by severity of injury and by whether the vehicle which failed to stop was hit.
Year | Collision type | Killed | Serious (adjusted) | Slight (adjusted) | All casualties |
2017 | Hit and run | 91 | 2,334 | 16,187 | 18,612 |
2018 | Hit and run | 73 | 2,549 | 17,057 | 19,679 |
2019 | Hit and run | 86 | 2,504 | 17,726 | 20,316 |
2020 | Hit and run | 67 | 2,012 | 14,643 | 16,722 |
2021 | Hit and run | 86 | 2,423 | 16,448 | 18,957 |
2022 | Hit and run | 82 | 2,613 | 17,329 | 20,024 |
2023 | Hit and run | 86 | 2,754 | 18,048 | 20,888 |
2017 | Non-stop vehicle not hit | 30 | 849 | 6,092 | 6,971 |
2018 | Non-stop vehicle not hit | 34 | 860 | 5,636 | 6,530 |
2019 | Non-stop vehicle not hit | 30 | 856 | 5,435 | 6,321 |
2020 | Non-stop vehicle not hit | 30 | 690 | 3,861 | 4,581 |
2021 | Non-stop vehicle not hit | 31 | 800 | 4,245 | 5,076 |
2022 | Non-stop vehicle not hit | 38 | 730 | 3,788 | 4,556 |
2023 | Non-stop vehicle not hit | 38 | 660 | 2,927 | 3,625 |
STATS19 does not record details of subsequent prosecutions, so it is not possible to say what proportion of these collisions resulted in prosecution.
Data on motoring offences does not fall under the policy remit of the Department for Transport and is published separately by the Ministry of Justice.