Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 111813

Driving: Accidents

Tabled: 9 February 2026
Answered: 17 February 2026

Question

Jerome Mayhew

ConservativeBroadland and Fakenham

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate her Department has made of the number of collisions and near misses in the last five years involved drivers with vision below the legal standard.

Answer

Lilian Greenwood
Data on road injury collisions in Great Britain is reported to the Department by police forces using a data collection system known as STATS19.STATS19 does not record near misses or identify whether drivers involved in collisions have vision below the leg...

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