Ellie Reeves
Labour, Lewisham West and Penge
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many serious road traffic accidents there were in (a) the UK, (b) London, (c) Borough of Lewisham and (d) Borough of Bromley in each of the last 10 years.
Jesse Norman
Minister of State (Department for Transport)
The table below provides the number of serious reported personal injury road accidents in Great Britain, London, Borough of Lewisham and Borough of Bromley between 2007 and 2017.
Please note that the number of serious accidents provided is as reported by the police. Since 2016, changes in severity reporting systems for a large number of police forces mean that serious injury figures are not comparable with earlier years. In particular figures for London in 2017, and to a lesser extent 2016, are impacted by the Metropolitan Police Service changing system in November 2016.
Serious reported road accidents, 2007 to 2017
Year | Great Britain | London | Borough of Lewisham | Borough of Bromley |
2007 | 24,322 | 3,268 | 111 | 121 |
2008 | 23,121 | 3,061 | 106 | 104 |
2009 | 21,997 | 2,828 | 99 | 107 |
2010 | 20,440 | 2,627 | 100 | 80 |
2011 | 20,986 | 2,550 | 99 | 69 |
2012 | 20,901 | 2,793 | 96 | 78 |
2013 | 19,624 | 2,112 | 57 | 61 |
2014 | 20,676 | 1,979 | 56 | 46 |
2015 | 20,038 | 1,882 | 50 | 64 |
2016 | 21,725 | 2,291 | 63 | 80 |
2017 | 22,534 | 3,622 | 110 | 102 |
Source: DfT STATS19 | ||||
The data we hold only covers reported personal injury road accidents in Great Britain, we do not have data for Northern Ireland.
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