Written question asked by Ian Lavery (Labour) on Tuesday, 14 January 2020, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 16 January 2020. It was answered by George Freeman (Conservative) on Tuesday, 21 January 2020 on behalf of the Department for Transport.

Roads: Horses

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many accidents involving horses on public highways were recorded in (a) each of the last 10 years and (b) the last 12 months.

Answer

Data on personal injury road accidents reported to the police held by the Department for Transport includes information on horses either as a vehicle (when they are ridden) or as a carriageway hazard for the accident (when they are not ridden and in the carriageway). When they are involved in an accident as a carriageway hazard, horses cannot be separated out from other animals.

The number of accidents involving ridden horses and where ‘animal (excluding ridden horses) in carriageway’ was recorded as a carriageway hazard on public highways in Great Britain is shown in the tables below.

By year, 2009-2018


Year	Accidents involving ridden horses	Accidents where ‘animal (except ridden horse) in carriageway’ was recorded as a carriageway hazard
2009	102	834
2010	126	864
2011	135	851
2012	127	804
2013	108	734
2014	115	692
2015	101	610
2016	103	556
2017	84	477
2018	73	376
		Source: DfT, STATS19

By month, 2018


Month	Accidents involving ridden horses	Accidents where ‘animal (except ridden horse) in the carriageway’ was recorded as a carriageway hazard
January	3	23
February	3	31
March	8	22
April	9	27
May	6	38
June	7	27
July	5	30
August	4	43
September	12	33
October	8	36
November	2	33
December	6	33
		Source: DfT, STATS19

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Type: Written question
Reference: 3211
Session: 2019-21
Transferred: Yes
Subjects: Accidents Horses Roads
Contains statistics: Yes
Link: View this Written question on www.parliament.uk

Roads: Horses

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