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Roads: Accidents

Volume 464: debated on Thursday 11 October 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many hit-and-run accidents there were in (a) South Yorkshire and (b) England in each of the last five years; and how many accidents resulted in (i) injury and (ii) death. (157099)

The number of reported personal injury road accidents involving at least one hit and run driver/rider in (a) South Yorkshire and (b) England in each of the past five years, for (i) serious or slight and (ii) fatal accidents is shown in the table.

Number of accidents

South Yorkshire

England

Serious or slight

Fatal

Serious or slight

Fatal

2002

530

2

24,040

142

2003

600

3

24,065

130

2004

599

4

21,659

119

2005

569

1

20,289

138

2006

566

6

19,046

142