Department for Transport written question – answered at on 24 May 2018.
Rachael Maskell
Shadow Minister (Transport)
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many cyclists have (a) been injured and (b) died from cycling-related accidents in (i) York and (ii) the UK in each of the last eight years.
Jesse Norman
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The table below shows the number of pedal cyclists killed or injured in reported road accidents involving personal injury in York and in Great Britain, for the years 2009 to 2016.
York | Great Britain | |||
Year | Number of pedal cyclists killed | Number of pedal cyclists injured (serious or slight) | Number of pedal cyclists killed | Number of pedal cyclists injured (serious or slight) |
2009 | 1 | 132 | 104 | 16,960 |
2010 | 0 | 123 | 111 | 17,074 |
2011 | 1 | 123 | 107 | 19,108 |
2012 | 0 | 139 | 118 | 18,973 |
2013 | 0 | 148 | 109 | 19,329 |
2014 | 0 | 191 | 113 | 21,174 |
2015 | 0 | 165 | 100 | 18,744 |
2016 | 0 | 179 | 102 | 18,375 |
Source: DfT STATS19
To put these figures into context, the miles cycled in Great Britain rose from 2.97Bn miles in 2009, to 3.45Bn in 2016, a 16 per cent increase.
The Department does not hold data for Northern Ireland and therefore publishes statistics on reported road accidents and casualties for Great Britain only.
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