Department for Transport written question – answered at on 5 September 2016.
Anna Turley
Labour/Co-operative, Redcar
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many cyclists died as a result of road traffic incident in each year since 2010 in (a) Redcar, (b) the North East and (c) the UK.
Andrew Jones
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The table below provides the number of cyclists killed in a road traffic accident on public roads in a) Redcar, b) the North East of England, and c) Great Britain.
Year | Redcar Constituency | North East England | Great Britain |
2010 | 0 | 4 | 111 |
2011 | 3 | 7 | 107 |
2012 | 0 | 6 | 118 |
2013 | 0 | 6 | 109 |
2014 | 0 | 3 | 113 |
2015 | 0 | 1 | 100 |
The Department does not hold data for Northern Ireland, therefore the table includes statistics for Great Britain rather than the United Kingdom.
These statistics come from police reported data on personal injury accidents on the public highway. The Department does not collect information about accidents that were on private roads, car parks or off-road.
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