HC Deb 17 May 1978 vol 950 c195W
Mr. Andrew F. Bennett

asked the Secretary of State for Transport, for the last year for which figures are available, what estimates there are of the number of road accidents caused by stray dogs, how many people were injured as a result; and how many people were killed.

Mr. Horam

Information is not available in the precise form requested, but it is provisionally estimated that in 1977 there were 1,603 injury accidents in Great Britain, involving 13 deaths and 1,878 persons injured, where a dog was reported on the carriageway.