RTCs - 1077/19

Date Responded 06 September 2019

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 3^rd 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

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

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.

Disclaimer

Due to the different methods of recording information across 43 forces, a specific response from one constabulary should not be seen as an indication of what information could be supplied (within cost) by another. Systems used for recording these figures are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data. For this reason responses between forces may differ, and should not be used for comparative purposes.

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