Lilian Greenwood – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lilian Greenwood on 2016-07-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 25 February 2016 to Question 27762, on roads: suicide, how many suicides or attempted suicides have been recorded on the Strategic Road Network in 2016 up to the most recent period for which figures are available.

Andrew Jones

Highways England’s systems are used to record incidents that occur on the Strategic Road Network.

Between 1 January 2016 and 30 June 2016, the number of incidents defined as either suicide or attempted suicide was 568.