Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 18900

Roads: Accidents

Tabled: 14 July 2026
Answered: 22 July 2026

Question

Connor Naismith

LabourCrewe and Nantwich

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many defendants have successfully used the defence of automatism in cases arising from road traffic collisions in each of the last five years; and what assessment she has made of the impact of those cases on

Answer

Sarah Sackman
The Ministry of Justice publishes data on defendants dealt with at criminal courts in England and Wales for a variety of offences including road traffic offences in the Outcomes by Offence data tool, which can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Stati...

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