Roads: Accidents

(asked on 10th March 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Vere of Norbiton on 9 March (HL6487), how many pedestrians were knocked over by motor vehicles in each of the last three years; and of those, how many sustained serious injuries or were killed.


Answered by
Baroness Vere of Norbiton Portrait
Baroness Vere of Norbiton
Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury)
This question was answered on 15th March 2022

The number of reported pedestrian casualties, including killed or seriously injured (adjusted) casualties, in collisions where the pedestrian was hit by a known motor vehicle in each of the last three years is shown in the below table.

Year

Killed

Serious
(adjusted)

Total pedestrian casualties hit by
a motor vehicle

2018

437

6,386

21,445

2019

453

6,116

20,982

2020

333

4,081

14,133

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