Railways: Death
(asked on 11th November 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many persons other than those working on the railway have been killed on (1) the UK railways, and (2) the London Underground, in each of the last 10 years, and in the current year so far; and how many of those were (a) suicides, (b) accidents to persons trespassing on the line, (c) accidents at level crossings, and (d) owing to other causes.
Answered by
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
Other than those working on the railway, the number of fatalities on UK Railways over the past decade and to date this year is noted in Table 1 below.
Table 1: Fatalities on UK Railways
2005/06 | 2006/07 | 2007/08 | 2008/09 | 2009/10 | 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16* | |
Suicide | 225 | 225 | 207 | 219 | 243 | 208 | 250 | 246 | 278 | 292 | 142 |
Trespass | 44 | 43 | 52 | 46 | 42 | 24 | 40 | 33 | 22 | 22 | 15 |
Level Crossings | 13 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 0 |
Other | 8 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
Totals | 290 | 289 | 275 | 283 | 304 | 247 | 302 | 292 | 312 | 329 | 161 |
*April – September
The Department for Transport does not hold any information in relation to fatalities on London Underground.