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Cycling: Accidents

Question for Department for Transport

UIN HL5522, tabled on 7 February 2023

To ask His Majesty's Government how many fatal accidents involving cyclists riding after lighting-up time without lights have occurred in each of the last five years.

Answered on

15 February 2023

The table below shows the number of fatal road collisions in Great Britain reported by the police using the STATS19 system where a police officer attended the scene and allocated the contributory factor ‘Not displaying lights at night or in poor visibility’ to a pedal cyclist involved in the collision.

Year

Fatal collisions

2017

2

2018

3

2019

4

2020

4

2021

4