RTC's involving police vehicles
23 April
Request under the freedom of information act 2000 ref no's: FOI2025/02611
I write in connection with your request for information received on 24th March. I note you seek access to the following information:
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:
[i] Damage Only
[ii] Personal Injury: further broken down by the number of individuals involved with injuries classified as:
[iii] Fatal
[iv] Serious
[v] Slight
3. For each year, for vehicles involved in these collisions, advise on:
a. The number of police vehicles written off following such collisions
b. Police vehicle repair costs
c. The costs paid out to third parties for injuries/damage to their vehicles
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.
Following enquiries within Bedfordshire Police Force please see our response below.
- 193
This includes 1 record per Police vehicle involved. e.g if two Police vehicles hit one non-police vehicle, this will show as two.
Excluding vicinity collisions and any collision which does not involve a non-police vehicle
- Not recorded
- Pursuit 89
2.Damage Only
2020 – 48
2021 - 23
2022 - 38
2023 - 29
2024 – 41
Personal Injury:
2020 - 2
2021 - 2
2022 - 3
2023 - 1
2024 - 6
further broken down by the number of individuals involved with injuries classified as:
Fatal
2020 - 0
2021- 0
2022 – 0
2023 - 0
2024 – 0
Serious
2020 - 1
2021 - 0
2022 - 0
2023 -1
2024 – 1
Slight
2020 - 1
2021 - 5
2022 - 3
2023 - 0
2024 - 6
2020 - 2
2021 - 3
2022 - 4
2023 - 2
2024 - 5
2020 - £134,675
2021 - £64,317
2022 - £112,217
2023 - £98,531
2024 - £123,071
2020 - £71,815
2021 - £52,227
2022 - £23,673
2023 - £14,452
2024 - £14,054 En Route Not recorded
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.