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Railway Stations: Accidents

Volume 470: debated on Tuesday 22 January 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many (a) fatalities and (b) injuries have occurred at railway stations in Hampshire since 2002, broken down by cause. (179741)

The Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) records accident data against the geographical location of where the accident occurs. There is no further sub division into the nature of the location e.g. station, signal box, track. Details of accidents to people at stations could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

ORR has however provided details of all fatalities and injuries occurring on the railways in Hampshire since 2002. Data for 2007 are not yet available. The information is broken down by person category and is detailed in the following tables:

Table 1: Railway fatalities in Hampshire, 2002-06

Passenger

Railway employees

Other members of the public

Trespassers

Suicides

2002

1

0

0

2

1

2003

0

1

0

2

1

2004

1

1

1

2

4

2005

0

0

0

3

4

2006

0

0

0

7

2

Total

2

2

1

16

10

Table 2: Railway injuries in Hampshire, 2002-06

Passenger

Railway employees

Other members of the public

Trespassers

Attempted suicides

2002

34

56

1

1

2003

29

59

2

0

2004

33

48

5

1

2005

34

47

1

3

1

2006

18

30

1

6

1

Total

148

240

2

17

4