PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Roads: Accidents (14 October 2016)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what date his Department holds on the number of incidents involving (a) lorries and (b) buses that related to wheel loss.
Asked by:
Mike Kane (Labour)
Asked by:
Mike Kane (Labour)
Answer
The police-reported personal injury accident data does not include anything that specifies whether an accident resulted from wheel loss.
The closest piece of information in the statistics is the contributory factor of ‘tyres illegal, defective or under inflated’. A total of 19 heavy goods vehicles and two buses or coaches in Great Britain had this contributory factor in 2015.
Answered by:
Andrew Jones (Conservative)
21 October 2016
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