AQW 30541/11-15

Mr Stewart Dickson
Alliance Party
East Antrim

Tabled Date: 04/02/2014
Answered On Date: 11/02/2014
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail the number of successful prosecutions arising from the death of a cyclist in a road traffic collision in each financial year since 2002; and whether the outcome resulted in a custodial or non-custodial sentence.

Answer:

Conviction data is recorded for generic offences, such as, for example, causing death by dangerous driving or causing death by driving carelessly when unfit. Datasets held by my Department currently do not contain information on the location and circumstances in which offences were committed. Therefore, it is not currently possible to identify from the data whether a conviction associated with a road traffic collision relates to one involving the death of a cyclist.