PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Roads: Death (30 October 2020)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many fatal road traffic collisions were recorded in (a) Sussex and (b) England in (i) 2015, (ii) 2016, (iii) 2017, (iv) 2018, (v) 2019 and (vi) 2020 to date.

Asked by:
Andrew Griffith (Conservative)

Answer

The number of fatal reported personal injury road accidents in the Sussex police force and England between 2015 and 2019 can be found in the table below.

The latest annual published statistics are for 2019. The final data on reported personal injury road accidents in Great Britain for 2020 will be published in September 2021.

Reported fatal road accidents, Sussex and England, 2015 to 2019

Year

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

Number of fatal road accidents in Sussex1

41

52

50

43

42

Number of fatal road accidents in England

1,373

1,425

1,437

1,427

1,403

Source: DfT, STATS19

1 Includes East Sussex, West Sussex and Brighton & Hove.


Answered by:
Rachel Maclean (Conservative)
6 November 2020

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