Vehicle collisions with Council owned property
Case reference FOI2022/00986
Published 23 August 2022
Request
Q1. How many vehicles collided with property owned by your local authority - such as buildings, railings, lampposts, street furniture etc. - in each of the calendar years 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018 and 2017? Please provide the data broken down by year.
Q2. How much money did your local authority spend in each of the calendar years 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018 and 2017 repairing council-owned property that was damaged by vehicles?
Please also state how much, if any, of each annual amount, in £s, was recovered through insurance policies.
Please also state how much, if any, of each annual amount, in £s, was recovered through uninsured loss recovery (ULR) programmes. Please provide the data broken down by year.
Response
Q1. How many vehicles collided with property owned by your local authority - such as buildings, railings, lampposts, street furniture etc. - in each of the calendar years 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018 and 2017? Please provide the data broken down by year.
Our records show that we have had two incidents of vehicles colliding with gates; 1 incident in 2021 and 1 incident in 2022
Q2. How much money did your local authority spend in each of the calendar years 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018 and 2017 repairing council-owned property that was damaged by vehicles?
Incident in 2021 did not require repairing and we are awaiting the final costings in relation to the incident in 2022.
Please also state how much, if any, of each annual amount, in £s, was recovered through insurance policies.
£0.00 - This would not be recovered by insurance.
Please also state how much, if any, of each annual amount, in £s, was recovered through uninsured loss recovery (ULR) programmes. Please provide the data broken down by year.
2017 - £12,474.59
2018 - £14,523.76
2019 - £13,669.08
2020 - £3,282.41
2021 - £4,784.302022 (to date - 27.07.22) - £10,095.22
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