Roads: Accidents
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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