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Police Patrol Vehicles (Accidents)

Volume 281: debated on Wednesday 17 July 1996

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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]

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. 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 vehicle accidents

Total police accidents arising from pursuits and emergency calls

Police fatal injury

Police serious injury

Civilian fatal injury

Civilian serious injury

Lancashire404720002
Leicestershire274710101
Lincolnshire72280100
Merseyside5202250614
Metropolitan Police4,3211,9952221122
Norfolk194460111
North Wales93360000
North Yorkshire173680101
Northamptonshire173710000
Northumbria1,011n/an/an/an/an/a
Nottinghamshire3041610123
South Wales398n/an/an/an/an/a
South Yorkshire2851500001
Staffordshire415720011
Suffolk143310000
Surrey2261220201
Sussex328410400
Thames Valley8133270300
Warwickshire97330101
West Mercia328930000
West Midlands1,0522580111
West Yorkshire515490010
Wiltshire73270000
England and Wales Total17,9485,3882531956