HC Deb 16 December 1993 vol 234 cc788-90W
Mr. Redmond

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list by police authority for the last four years, and for this year to date, the number of hit and run vehicle accidents involving pedestrians that have been reported; how many of the accidents were caused by stolen vehicles; and how many resulted in the death of the pedestrian.

Mr. Key

I have been asked to reply.

The number of hit and run accidents involving pedestrians and the number of hit and run accidents involving pedestrian fatalities for the last four years for each police authority are given in the tables. Data for 1993 are not yet available. Information on stolen vehicles involved in injury accidents is not available.

Year of Accident
Police Force 1989 1990 1991 1992
Surrey 73 83 70 56
Kent 132 153 152 120
Sussex 120 135 126 113
Devon and Cornwall 130 120 129 134
Avon and Somerset 129 75 99 82
Gloucestershire 44 31 41 41
Wiltshire 37 43 44 39
Dorset 56 60 42 46
North Wales 52 74 65 59
Gwent 26 14 45 29
South Wales 234 209 185 171
Dyfed-Powys 26 29 48 35
Northern 8 7 7 9
Grampian 44 35 56 53
Tayside 23 23 20 17
Fife 20 14 14 17
Lothian and Borders 100 104 86 112
Central 12 19 17 17
Strathclyde 195 240 220 210
Dumfries and Galloway 10 12 8 5
TOTAL 6,633 6,460 6,223 5,954

Hit and run accidents involving pedestrian fatalities: 1989 to 1992
Year of accident
Police force 1989 1990 1991 1992
Metropolitan Police 14 14 16 19
Cumbria 1 2 1 0
Lancashire 0 2 2 3
Merseyside 4 6 8 2
Greater Manchester 7 16 15 8
Cheshire 3 1 0 0
Northumbria 2 5 6 6
Durham 3 3 3 0
North Yorkshire 2 1 0 0
West Yorkshire 3 5 4 3
South Yorkshire 2 4 4 5
Humberside 0 0 0 1
Cleveland 0 2 1 0
West Midlands 6 6 8 6
Staffordshire 1 0 0 0
West Mercia 0 0 2 0
Warwickshire 2 0 0 0
Derbyshire 0 1 2 2
Nottinghamshire 1 2 2 1
Lincolnshire 0 0 0 0
Leicestershire 1 1 1 0
Northamptonshire 3 0 0 0
Cambridgeshire 1 1 0 0
Norfolk 2 2 0 1
Suffolk 0 1 0 0
Bedfordshire 0 1 2 0
Hertfordshire 1 1 1 3
Essex 2 3 1 0
Thames Valley 4 2 1 1
Hampshire 2 5 0 3
Surrey 0 2 0 0
Kent 4 4 3 2
Sussex 3 2 1 0
Devon and Cornwall 1 0 2 2
Avon and Somerset 2 3 5 4
Gloucestershire 1 0 1 1
Wiltshire 0 0 1 0
Dorset 0 1 1 1
North Wales 2 0 0 1
Gwent 0 0 1 0
South Wales 2 1 3 6
Dyfed-Powys 0 0 1 1
Northern 0 0 1 0
Grampian 1 0 0 1
Tayside 0 1 0 0
Fife 0 0 0 0
Lothian and Borders 2 4 1 1
Year of accident
Police force 1989 1990 1991 1992
Central 0 1 0 0
Strathclyde 3 3 4 6
Dumfries and Galloway 0 0 0 0
Total 88 109 105 90