Transport: Safety
(asked on 15th September 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the respective risks of travel by (1) public transport, and (2) car.
This question was answered on 23rd September 2020
The Department has not made an assessment of the risks of travel by public transport or car. The Department publishes statistics on casualty numbers and rates by modes of travel in the annual Transport Statistics Great Britain publication. Comparing risks between transport modes is not straightforward as the types of journeys people make with each mode are different, so a simple comparison of casualty numbers or rate (casualties per billion passenger miles) may not be a fair one.