Vehicles Destroyed Beyond Economic Repair

1. How many of your vehicles were destroyed (by destroyed I mean damaged beyond economic repair) in the last financial year (09/10) following a road traffic accident?
2. What was the total cost of this damage to your service because of the accidents referred to in Q.1? The ‘cost’ should be expressed as the book value of the vehicles to your force at the time, even if there was no cost in replacing it as it may have been insured.
3. In the 09/10 financial year how many claims of compensation were paid to members of the public who were injured in a collision involving one of your vehicles, and what was the total amount of this compensation?

Please note that members of the public could be a passenger in your vehicle, a pedestrian or the driver/passenger in another vehicle. The question relates to the date the claim was paid (09/10) irrespective of when the accident took place.

In accordance with section 1(1) (b) of the Act our response is provided below;

Question 1

In total, there were 7 vehicles written off due to being beyond economical repair. 6 of these vehicles were Police owned, and the remaining vehicle was a hire car.

Question 2

Vehicle Values

Police: £5000, £1900, £7500, £10500, £2500, £3800

Hire: £1650

Question 3

There were 33 claims of compensation paid out, at a total cost of £120,644