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Written question asked by Lord Watson of Wyre Forest (Labour) on Tuesday, 12 June 2007, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 14 June 2007. It was answered by Tony McNulty (Labour) on Thursday, 21 June 2007 on behalf of the Home Office.

Police: Motor Vehicles

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police response vehicles were in road accidents while on operational duty in each of the last five years; how many injuries were sustained by (a) police officers and (b) police community support officers in such accidents; and if he will make a statement.
Answer

The available data refer to all vehicles being used for a police purpose and to all police personnel, not separately to police officers and police community support officers. They cover the period from 2002-03. The information is given in the following tables.

Number of road traffic collisions on public roads involving police vehicles, from 2002-03 to 2005-06: England and Wales
Number of accidents
2002-03¹ 18,644
2003-04 20,511
2004-05² 19,046
2005-06 19,280
¹ Data not available for Durham and West Midlands.
² Data not available for Cleveland, Leicestershire and South Wales.
Number of police personnel casualties resulting from those road traffic accidents during immediate/emergency response, from 2002-03 to 2005-06, England and Wales
Fatal injury Serious injury Other injury
2002-03¹ 2 33 568
2003-04 1 38 765
2004-05² 0 25 781
2005-06³ 3 28 828
¹ Data not available for Durham, Metropolitan police (other injury only), North Yorkshire and West Midlands.
² Data not available for Dorset and Leicestershire.
³ Data not available for Nottinghamshire.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
461 c2077-8W; 143251
Session
2006-07
Subjects
Accidents Police Roads Vehicles
Link
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