HC Deb 28 November 2002 vol 395 c456W
Tim Loughton

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many fatalities there have been in UK waters in each of the last two years involving jet skis. [83318]

Mr. Jamieson

[holding answer 25 November 2002]HM Coastguard incident reports record a total of 494 incidents involving Personal Watercraft between January 2000 and 22 November 2002 around the UK coastline. One fatality was recorded. A breakdown by year is provided in the following table.

Year Number of incidents Number of fatalities
2000 150 0
2001 179 0
20021 165 1
1 To 22 November 2002

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