RTCs involving police vehicles

23rd April 2025

Our Ref: FOI2025/02628

Request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 Ref No: FOI2025/02628

I write in connection with your request for information received on 24th March.  I note you seek access to the following information:

I am requesting the following information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000:

For calendar years 2020 - 2024, please provide:

    1. The number of recorded Road Traffic Collisions (RTCs) involving a police vehicle and a non-police vehicle, where the police vehicle was responding to an incident with emergency warning equipment (blue lights and/or sirens) activated at the time of the collision.

    a. Please exclude collisions involving pedestrians
    b. Where possible, please indicate whether the collision occurred during a pursuit or en route to an incident.

    2. For each year, please categorise RTCs by severity of the outcome as follows:

        Damage Only

        Personal Injury: further broken down by the number of individuals involved with injuries classified as:

            Fatal

            Serious

            Slight

    3. For each year, for vehicles involved in these collisions, advise on:

        The number of police vehicles written off following such collisions

        Police vehicle repair costs

        The costs paid out to third parties for injuries/damage to their vehicles

If full data is not available for the entire period, please supply the information that is available and specify any gaps.

I am required by the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (The Act) to handle all requests in a manner that is blind to the identity of the requestor. Any information released in response to a request is regarded as being published and therefore, in the public domain without caveat.

Response: Following searches conducted within the Fleet Unit of the Constabulary please see our response below:

Questions 1 & 2:

Questions 3:

The numerical data presented in this response is an un-audited snapshot of un-published data sourced from "live" systems and is subject to the interpretation of the original request by the individual extracting the data.