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Written question asked by Chris Huhne (Liberal Democrat) on Thursday, 7 February 2008, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 18 February 2008. It was answered by Tony McNulty (Labour) on Friday, 22 February 2008 on behalf of the Home Office.

Police: Vehicles

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) injuries and (b) deaths were caused by accidents in which police vehicles were involved in each of the last 10 years, broken down by police force.
Answer

The available information relates to the numbers of casualties and degree of injury from road traffic collisions resulting from immediate/emergency response and police pursuits on public roads involving all police forces in England and Wales.These data have been collected centrally from 2002-03 and are provided in the following tables.

Number of casualties resulting from those road traffic accidents during immediate/emergency response, from 2002-03 to 2006-07
2002-03 2003-04 2004-05
Fatal injury Serious injury Other injury Fatal injury Serious injury Other injury Fatal injury Serious injury Other injury
Avon and Somerset 2 7 53 2 6 74 0 9 52
Bedfordshire 0 2 16 1 1 56 1 1 27
Cambridgeshire 0 6 6 0 4 12 0 0 26
Cheshire 0 2 27 0 1 17 0 7 29
Cleveland 0 0 18 1 0 3 0 0 0
Cumbria 0 0 8 0 0 5 0 0 6
Derbyshire 0 0 38 0 1 25 1 0 35
Devon and Cornwall 0 1 26 1 1 64 0 0 18
Dorset 0 1 10 1 2 9 ¹— ¹— ¹—
Durham 0 1 41 2 1 36 0 1 26
Dyfed-Powys 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Essex 0 2 32 2 3 36 1 3 35
Gloucestershire 0 0 24 0 0 4 0 0 12
Greater Manchester 4 5 74 6 9 56 4 2 106
Gwent 0 0 12 0 0 24 0 0 5
Hampshire 1 7 29 0 3 7 0 0 7
Hertfordshire 0 6 59 0 2 16 0 5 61
Humberside 0 4 19 0 1 25 0 0 18
Kent 0 2 48 0 7 73 0 2 23
Lancashire 0 1 31 0 2 30 1 0 19
Leicestershire 1 2 15 0 2 16 ¹— ¹— ¹—
Lincolnshire 0 2 10 0 5 18 2 2 12
London, City of 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1
Merseyside 3 3 62 3 6 75 0 3 58
Metropolitan Police 5 14 ¹— 4 21 600 4 23 724
Norfolk 1 1 17 1 1 28 0 6 26
Northamptonshire 0 1 14 1 6 19 0 4 22
Northumbria 0 3 62 0 3 70 3 13 94
North Wales 0 0 18 0 1 5 0 0 3
North Yorkshire ¹— ¹— ¹— 0 2 13 0 2 7
Nottinghamshire 2 5 8 1 8 57 1 0 4
South Wales 0 0 20 0 0 9 0 0 0
South Yorkshire 0 3 24 0 12 67 2 10 83
Staffordshire 0 0 26 0 1 29 0 0 1
Suffolk 0 1 6 0 3 11 0 2 8
Surrey 0 2 40 1 2 33 0 1 31
Sussex 0 7 45 0 6 27 2 0 31
Thames Valley 3 13 115 2 11 122 0 6 71
Warwickshire 0 0 5 0 1 10 2 0 8
West Mercia 0 4 30 0 2 22 0 4 32
West Midlands 1 1 61 2 2 44 0 0 44
West Yorkshire 0 0 15 0 0 7 0 2 5
Wiltshire 0 0 8 0 0 4 0 0 11
2005-06 2006-07
Fatal injury Serious injury Other injury Fatal injury Serious injury Other injury
Avon and Somerset 2 3 68 0 8 42
Bedfordshire 0 0 17 1 2 11
Cambridgeshire 0 0 10 0 0 0
Cheshire 0 5 30 0 2 18
Cleveland 0 0 0 0 1 8
Cumbria 2 0 3 0 0 3
Derbyshire 0 0 6 0 0 16
Devon and Cornwall 0 0 15 0 1 20
Dorset 1 1 17 0 1 7
Durham 0 2 13 0 1 21
Dyfed-Powys 0 0 0 0 0 0
Essex 1 4 17 0 0 22
Gloucestershire 0 0 6 ¹— ¹— ¹—
Greater Manchester 1 3 91 6 6 64
Gwent 0 1 13 0 0 7
Hampshire 1 7 10 1 5 4
Hertfordshire 2 3 45 0 11 48
Humberside 0 0 12 1 0 19
Kent 1 1 18 0 0 12
Lancashire 0 0 28 0 2 32
Leicestershire 0 1 10 0 1 15
Lincolnshire 0 1 13 0 0 6
London, City of 0 1 6 0 0 0
Merseyside 3 3 136 1 4 88
Metropolitan Police 4 33 584 4 26 496
Norfolk 0 0 10 0 0 10
Northamptonshire 0 1 18 1 7 13
Northumbria 1 5 84 1 5 64
North Wales 0 0 1 0 0 24
North Yorkshire 0 2 10 0 11 16
Nottinghamshire ¹— ¹— ¹— ¹— ¹— ¹—
South Wales 0 0 3 0 0 1
South Yorkshire 0 2 11 0 33 35
Staffordshire 1 0 5 0 0 17
Suffolk 1 1 4 0 0 16
Surrey 0 1 31 0 2 24
Sussex 5 0 23 0 0 43
Thames Valley 0 2 127 3 6 56
Warwickshire 0 0 8 0 0 8
West Mercia 0 2 26 0 1 23
West Midlands 0 0 31 0 0 12
West Yorkshire 0 0 24 0 0 52
Wiltshire 0 0 4 0 0 4
¹ Force unable to provide data.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
186467; 472 c1086-90W
Session
2007-08
Subjects
Accidents Roads Police pursuits
Link
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