Mark Tami
Opposition Whip (Commons)
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many dogs were reported to have been killed or injured in a road traffic incident in England and Wales in each of the last five years.
Mike Penning
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport
The Department for Transport collates information on animals identified as carriageway hazards in reported personal injury road accidents. However, information on the types of animals involved in accidents and whether they are killed or injured, is not collected.
The number of reported personal injury road accidents involving animals in the carriageway, in England and Wales, 2005-09, is shown in the following table.
| Reported personal injury road accidents involving an animal( 1) in the carriageway: England and Wales 2005-09 | |
| Accidents | |
| 2005 | 947 |
| 2006 | 977 |
| 2007 | 909 |
| 2008 | 769 |
| 2009 | 760 |
| (1) Excludes ridden horses. | |
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