§ Mr. Gordon PrenticeTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what number and percentage of police vehicles involved in accidents while responding to an emergency or otherwise in pursuit were(a) motorway patrol vehicles, (b) armed response vehicles and (c) other police vehicles for each year since 1995. [107399]
§ Mr. Charles ClarkeThe information available centrally does not include the categories of vehicles requested. But a Home Office study of deaths and serious injuries resulting from police vehicle accidents which was published in 1997 contains this table giving the sorts of police vehicles involved in 1990–93:
Table 17: Role of the police vehicles involved in fatal/serious injury Police Vehicle Accidents: 1990–1993 Number Percentage Traffic 215 27.5 Area/response 116 14.9 Beat patrol 321 41.2 Criminal Investigation Department(CID) Divisional 40 5.1 CID Central 11 1.4 Surveillance 13 1.7 Protection 4 0.5 Territorial Support Group 3 0.4 Police Support Unit 4 0.5 Dog 22 2.8 Other 31 4.0 Total 780 100.0 Note:
Figures in Table 17 exclude 64 cases where the information was no longer available at the time of the research