To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the reply by Baroness Vere of Norbiton on 30 January (HL Deb col 415), how many car accidents have occurred in the UK in each of the last five years in which the glare of car lights was recorded as either the main or a contributory factor leading to the crash.
Answered on
15 February 2023
The number of reported personal injury road collisions in Great Britain involving at least one car, and which had the contributory factor ‘vision affected by dazzling headlights’ assigned to the collision by a police officer attending the scene, is shown in the table for each of the last 5 years for which data are available.
Year | *A - Vision affected by dazzling headlights | *B - Total collisions involving at least one car |
2017 | 292 | 81,385 |
2018 | 250 | 74,507 |
2019 | 258 | 69,249 |
2020 | 180 | 51,813 |
2021 | 208 | 57,915 |
Notes
*A - Collisions involving at least one car, where ‘vision affected by dazzling headlights’ was recorded as a contributory factor
*B - Total collisions involving at least one car where a police officer attended and at least one contributory factor was recorded