David Simpson – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport
The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Simpson on 2015-10-15.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people died on the roads in each region in incidents where a driver was using a mobile telephone in each of the last three years.
Andrew Jones
The Department holds information on the number of personal-injury road traffic accidents where the attending police officer judged that a driver using a mobile telephone contributed to the accident. This includes both cases where ‘hand held’ and ‘hands free’ telephones were deemed to contribute to the accident. The table below provides the number of fatalities in road traffic accidents that were reported to the police in which at least one driver was allocated the contributory factor ‘driver using mobile phone’ by region for 2012 to 2014.
Fatalities in reported road accidents in which the contributory factor ‘driver using mobile phone’ was reported: GB, 2012-2014
|
Region |
2012 |
2013 |
2014 |
|
North East |
2 |
1 |
1 |
|
North West |
1 |
2 |
1 |
|
Yorkshire and the Humber |
2 |
5 |
1 |
|
East Midlands |
1 |
1 |
4 |
|
West Midlands |
2 |
2 |
0 |
|
East of England |
1 |
2 |
3 |
|
South East |
3 |
2 |
9 |
|
London |
1 |
0 |
1 |
|
South West |
2 |
4 |
1 |
|
Wales |
1 |
2 |
2 |
|
Scotland |
1 |
5 |
1 |
|
Total |
17 |
26 |
24 |
|
Note: Includes only casualties where a police officer attended the scene and in which a contributory factor was reported |
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