HC Deb 17 February 1987 vol 110 cc556-7W
Mr. Chris Smith

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police officers, and how many members of the public were killed, and how many were injured, in accidents involving metropolitan police vehicles in the years 1984, 1985, and 1986; and how many of these deaths and injuries in each year resulted from accidents for which police drivers were assessed by the police to have been wholly or partly responsible.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis has provided the following information in relation to police vehicle accidents involving deaths:

Fatal accidents involving Metropolitan Police vehicles
1984 1985 1986
Number of fatal accidents 10 6 4
Number of police officers killed 1 0 1
Number of civilians killed 11 7 4
Number of accidents in which police assessed as blameworthy 11 1 20
1 Assessment on 2 accidents not yet completed, pending the outcome of court proceedings.
2 Assessment on 3 accidents not yet completed.

Detailed information on the numbers injured in police vehicle accidents was not collected prior to October 1985, but there were 99 police vehicle accidents involving injury in 1984 and 76 such accidents between 1 January and 30 September 1985 (inclusive). The figures since then are given in the table.

Injuries in accidents involving Metropolitan Police vehicles (Number of injuries arising from accidents where the police were assessed as blameworthy given in brackets).
11985 1986
Number of police officers injured 144 (9) 455 (94)
Number of civilians injured 122 (20) 399 (56)
1 October to December.