Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 38761
Roads: Accdients
Tabled: 17 March 2025
Answered: 24 March 2025
Question
Dan Aldridge
Labour — Weston-super-Mare
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of amending the Road Traffic Act 1991 to include the mandated reporting of cats that are (a) struck and (b) killed by vehicles.
Answer
Lilian GreenwoodThere are no plans to amend section 170 of the Road Traffic Act to make it mandatory for drivers to report road collisions involving cats. Although there is no obligation to report all collisions with animals on roads,Rule 286 of The Highway Code advises ...
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