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Roads: Accidents

Asked by Terry JermyLabourDepartment for TransportTabled Answered 10 March 2025UIN 36020

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many road traffic accidents involving horses took place between 2019 and 2024 in (a) England, (b) East Anglia and (c) South West Norfolk constituency.

Answered by Lilian Greenwood

The department publishes statistics on road injury collisions which occur on the public highway and are reported by police via the STATS19 system.

The number of such collisions involving ridden horses are shown in the table below for 2019 to 2023, which is the latest year for which data is available.

Year

England

East of England

South West Norfolk constituency

2019

51

5

0

2020

73

3

0

2021

76

7

1

2022

68

7

2

2023

49

7

0

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