§ Ms JowellTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) pursuant to his answer of 4 April,Official Report, column 1019, how many of the accidents which resulted in civilian injuries in each year since 1991 involved (a) basic patrol vehicles, (b) area or fast response vehicles and (c) unmarked police vehicles; [22656]
(2) pursuant to his answer of 4 April, Official Report, column 1019, how many of the accidents which resulted in civilian injuries in each year since 1991 involved police drivers who had not been trained to advanced level. [22657]
§ Mr. MacleanThe following shows the number of road traffic accidents involving police patrol vehicles since 1991; the numbers of injuries to civilians and police officers; and the number of accidents involving drivers trained to advanced level which resulted in civilian injuries.
The figures for injuries to civilians and police officers given in my answer of 4 April, column 1019, were transposed in three places and the following table corrects that error.
much compensation has been paid out in each of the last three years. [22943]
§ Mr. MacleanThe latest information available centrally on accidents involving police vehicles for police forces in England and Wales, excluding the Metropolitan police, is for the period 1991–1993 and is shown in table A. The latest available figures for the Metropolitan police are for the period 1992–94 and are shown in table B.
475WThe information in both tables relates to death and serious injury caused to both police officers and civilians in the course of either police pursuits or responses to
Table A: Police vehicle accidents in England and Wales (excluding the Metropolitan Police) Police fatal injury Police serious injury Civilian fatal injury Civilian serious injury Force Name 1991 1992 1993 1991 1992 1993 1991 1992 1993 1991 1992 1993 Avon and Somerset 0 0 0 3 1 11 1 4 2 5 11 5 Bedfordshire 0 0 0 4 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 Cambridgeshire 0 0 0 0 2 0 4 0 0 0 5 3 Cheshire 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 5 6 3 Cleveland 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 2 0 Cumbria 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 Derbyshire 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 Devon and Cornwall 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Dorset 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 4 2 3 Durham 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 2 1 0 Essex 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 Gloucestershire 0 0 0 0 6 2 0 0 1 1 1 0 Greater Manchester 0 0 0 1 2 4 3 3 1 15 4 41 Hampshire 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 7 0 2 Hertfordshire 0 0 0 3 3 5 0 0 1 5 4 2 Humberside 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 1 0 6 Kent 0 0 0 4 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 0 Lancashire 0 0 0 0 0 5 4 1 0 7 2 4 Leicestershire 0 0 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 12 2 Lincolnshire 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 City of London 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 Merseyside 0 0 0 3 1 7 4 0 1 26 21 4 Norfolk 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 3 Northamptonshire 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 2 2 2 Northumbria 0 0 0 3 3 0 3 1 2 4 1 10 North Yorkshire 0 0 1 3 5 2 0 0 0 4 5 7 Nottinghamshire 0 0 0 2 1 3 0 0 0 3 3 0 South Yorkshire 0 0 0 4 1 6 1 1 0 9 10 4 Staffordshire 0 0 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 Suffolk 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 Surrey 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 Sussex 0 0 0 2 2 3 0 0 1 5 5 6 Thames Valley 0 0 0 1 3 2 1 1 1 6 5 11 Warwickshire 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 West Mercia 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 0 0 West Midlands 0 0 1 9 5 0 1 3 2 0 1 1 West Yorkshire 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 Wiltshire 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 Dyfed-Powys 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 Gwent 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 North Wales 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 South Wales 0 0 0 5 7 3 0 1 1 0 12 2 Total 2 1 3 60 56 62 27 21 19 130 129 142
Table B: Police vehicle accidents (Metropolitan Police) Police fatal injury Police serious injury Civilian fatal injury Civilian serious injury 1992 1993 1994 1992 1993 1994 1992 1993 1994 1992 1993 1994 1 2 2 56 51 46 7 10 10 59 45 31