Provision of information held by Northumbria Police made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the 'Act')
As you may be aware the purpose of the Act is to allow a general right of access to information held at the time of a request, by a Public Authority (including the Police), subject to certain limitations and exemptions.
You asked:
Can you please provide the following data relating to non-stop Road Traffic Collisions in your force area.
- Number of RTC’s reported year by year in your force area for the period 2014 - 2019
- Breakdown of those RTC’s into Fatal, Injury, Damage only year by year
- Number of RTC’s classified as non-stop in your force area for the period 2014 - 2019 Broken down into Fatal Injury, Damage Only year by year
- Number of RTC’s classified as non-stop where an offender was traced and subsequently prosecuted for offences of failing to stop, / failing to report a collision for the period 2010 - 2019 broken down to Fatal, Injury and Damage Only
- Number of Fatal RTC’s where a vehicle failed to stop for the period 2014 - 2019 and total number of deceased from those fatal RTC’s
- Number of non-stop fatal RTC’s 2014-2019 whereby no driver was ever prosecuted for FTS
- Number of Fatal RTC’s whereby at least 1 driver / vehicle was uninsured and total number of fatalities from these RTC’s for the period
2014 - 2019
In Response:
Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted within Northumbria Police. I can confirm that the information you have requested is held by Northumbria Police.
I am able to disclose the located information to you as follows.
TO NOTE: damage only information is only available from 3rd March 2016 and August 2019 information is provided up to 15/8/19.
1&2.
Collision Severity |
2014 |
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
Total |
Fatal |
31 |
28 |
29 |
39 |
35 |
21 |
183 |
Serious |
378 |
397 |
533 |
505 |
560 |
308 |
2681 |
Slight |
2789 |
2805 |
2750 |
2191 |
2197 |
1165 |
13897 |
Damage Only |
7405 |
9107 |
9547 |
5612 |
31671 |
||
Total |
3198 |
3230 |
10717 |
11842 |
12339 |
7106 |
48432 |
3.
Collision Severity |
2014 |
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
Total |
Fatal |
2 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
6 |
||
Serious |
19 |
32 |
51 |
32 |
51 |
29 |
214 |
Slight |
290 |
330 |
477 |
292 |
330 |
210 |
1929 |
Damage Only |
3354 |
3708 |
3833 |
2358 |
13255 |
||
Total |
311 |
362 |
3884 |
4033 |
4215 |
2597 |
15404 |
4.
Collision Severity |
2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
Total |
Fatal |
2 |
2 |
|||
Serious |
3 |
1 |
5 |
2 |
11 |
Slight |
10 |
8 |
12 |
3 |
33 |
Damage Only |
13 |
25 |
26 |
14 |
78 |
Total |
28 |
34 |
43 |
19 |
124 |
5. The 6 Fatal RTCs listed in the table above all resulted in 1 fatality each
6.Of the 4 fatal collisions since March 2016, 1 was prosecuted for death by dangerous driving (but not for failing to stop/report), and the other 2 were prosecuted for a range of offences, including failure to stop/report. 1 does not have any information on the prosecution recorded on recording systems used.
7. of the drivers involved in the 4 fatal collisions since March 2016 also had no insurance.