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Home Office

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Mr. Beith: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many road traffic accidents involving police patrol vehicles were reported in each police force area in England and Wales for the years 1994 and 1995; and how many (a) police officers and (b) civilians sustained serious or fatal injuries in such accidents.[37105] Mr. Maclean: Information for the years 1994 and 1995 in the precise form requested is not available centrally. Some information is available, however, for the financial year 1994-95 and is set out in the table below. The figures for deaths and serious injuries relate to the incidents which are recorded in the second column, which arose in the course of either police pursuits or responses to emergency calls in England and Wales. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1994-95 Forces Total police Total police Police fatal Police serious Civilian fatal Civilian serious vehicle accidents injury injury injury injury accidents arising from pursuits and emergency calls Avon and Somerset 608 170 0 1 0 1 Bedfordshire 113 20 0 0 0 0 Cambridgeshire 124 50 0 0 0 0 Cheshire 166 73 0 1 0 0 City of London 56 14 0 0 0 1 Cleveland 164 108 0 0 0 3 Cumbria 160 29 0 0 1 1 Derbyshire 281 58 0 0 0 0 Devon and Cornwall 383 53 0 0 0 1 Dorset 119 54 0 2 0 2 Durham 176 105 0 0 0 1 Dyfed Powys 143 20 0 0 0 1 Essex 87 n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a Gloucestershire 158 2 0 0 0 0 Greater Manchester 920 426 0 2 0 4 Gwent 139 9 0 0 0 0 Hampshire 500 115 0 0 0 0 Hertfordshire 258 10 0 3 0 0 Humberside 243 69 0 0 0 2 Kent 938 27 0 0 0 0 Lancashire 404 72 0 0 0 2 Leicestershire 274 71 0 1 0 1 Lincolnshire 72 28 0 1 0 0 Merseyside 520 225 0 6 1 4 Metropolitan Police 4,321 1,995 2 22 11 22 Norfolk 194 46 0 1 1 1 North Wales 93 36 0 0 0 0 North Yorkshire 173 68 0 1 0 1 Northamptonshire 173 71 0 0 0 0 Northumbria 1,011 n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a Nottinghamshire 304 161 0 1 2 3 South Wales 398 n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a South Yorkshire 285 150 0 0 0 1 Staffordshire 415 72 0 0 1 1 Suffolk 143 31 0 0 0 0 Surrey 226 122 0 2 0 1 Sussex 328 41 0 4 0 0 Thames Valley 813 327 0 3 0 0 Warwickshire 97 33 0 1 0 1 West Mercia 328 93 0 0 0 0 West Midlands 1,052 258 0 1 1 1 West Yorkshire 515 49 0 0 1 0 Wiltshire 73 27 0 0 0 0 England and Wales Total 17,948 5,388 2 53 19 56 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

37105; 281 c550-2W

Session

1995-96

Subjects

Death Accidents Casualties Injuries Roads Police pursuits

Contains statistics

Yes