Lord Black of Brentwood – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Black of Brentwood on 2016-01-19.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many road traffic accidents in which a dog was injured were reported to the police in each of the last three years.

Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon

The Department for Transport collates information on animals identified as carriageway hazards in reported personal injury road accidents. However, information on the kind of animal involved in accidents is not collected.

The number of reported personal injury road accidents involving animals¹ in the carriageway, in Great Britain, 2012 – 2014², is shown in the following table.

1. Excludes ridden horses
2. Data for 2015 is published summer 2016.