HC Deb 17 May 1994 vol 243 c437W
Mr. Roger Evans

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many schoolchildren have been(a) injured and (b) killed while travelling to school on a school coach or minibus in each of the last five years.

Mr. Key

It is not possible to identify school coaches or minibuses in the road injury accident data collection system. However, it is possible to identify school pupil casualties in coaches and minibuses during journeys to and from school. Estimates of the information requested are shown in the following table.

School pupil1 casualties: killed or injured in a journey to or from

school: Great Britain 1988–92

Casualties
Minibus/motor caravan Bus or coach
1988
Fatal 3 0
Serious 6 23
Slight 92 411
Total 101 434
1989
Fatal 0 1
Serious 5 46
Slight 74 503
Total 79 550
1990
Fatal 0 0
Serious 9 37
Slight 85 545
Total 94 582
1991
Fatal 1 0
Serious 4 26
Slight 95 403
Total 100 429
1992
Fatal 0 1
Serious 3 23
Slight 105 498
Total 108 522

Note: Children are aged as 0 to 15 years of age, and most school pupils within this category will be aged 4 to 15 years of age.