FOI 385/25 Road Traffic Collisions

Enquiry Reference:  385- 25                                                             

I write in connection with regards to your Freedom of Information request. Below is your request and our response.

In the calendar year 2023: 

How many fatal and serious collisions in your area involved someone driving for work?

Answer

33

How many companies or company directors were charged with Cause and Permit offences in relation to serious Road Traffic Collisions?

How many companies or company directors were charged with Cause and Permit offences in relation

to fatal Road Traffic Collisions?

For the questions 2 and 3 how many of these related to large goods vehicles or PCVs?

How many Road Traffic Collisions in your area did the police seek advice from HSE on possible Health

and Safety Offences?

How many Prosecutions for Health and Safety Offences were there in relation to Road Traffic Collisions

in your area?

For question 6 how many of these related to large goods vehicles or PCVs?

Having made enquiries within the Force this is not information we measure therefore we would rely on the following:

Section 1 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) places two duties on public authorities. Unless exemptions apply, the first duty at Section 1 (1) (a) is to confirm or deny whether the information specified in a request is held. The second duty at Sec 1(1) (b) is to disclose information that has been confirmed as being held. Where exemptions are relied upon s17 of FOIA requires that we provide the applicant with a notice which: a) states that fact b) specifies the exemption(s) in question and c) states (if that would not otherwise be apparent) why the exemption applies.

Having made enquiries within the Force the information requested is not something we measure and to try and retrieve this data due to the nature of our recording systems this information, if held, is not in an easily retrievable format. Our information retrieval process generally relies on a computer ran report which captures any information recorded upon the surface of a record. Where relevant information is held deeper in a record a manual assessment is usually required to retrieve that information. In this instance to determine such detail would require a manual search through 972 incidents involving injury recorded in 2023 and this would take in excess of the appropriate time stipulated by the Secretary for Constitutional Affairs, Lord Falconer on the 18th Of October 2004, that is, eighteen hours. This falls under the exemption of 'Compliance exceeding the appropriate limit' covered by Section 12 (1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and as such this work could not be undertaken.

Therefore, please treat this as a refusal notice under S17 of the Freedom of information Act.

In accordance with Section 16 of the Act we have a duty to provide advice and assistance however on this occasion we cannot offer any suggestion on how you could refine this request.

Section 16 to provide assistance in relation to requests for information and in keeping with the spirit of the Act, on this occasion, I am providing some retrieved information for that part of your request which was retrieved or available before it was realised that the fees limit would be exceeded

Please note that all statistical data supplied in relation to Freedom of Information requests is a snapshot of data held at the time the request was received by the Freedom of Information office and is subject to constant change/updates.

If you are not satisfied with this response or any actions taken in dealing with your request, you have the right to request an independent internal review of your case under our review procedure. The Freedom of Information Code of Practice (see below link) states that a request for internal review should be made within 20 working days of the date on this response or 40 working days if extenuating circumstances to account for the delay can be evidenced. Public authorities are not obliged to accept internal reviews after this date.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/freedom-of-information-code-of-practice

Yours sincerely

Information Rights Decision Maker