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<p>The department does not collect data specifically on litter and debris causing
road accidents. The department collects data on personal injury road accidents reported
to the police, including contributory factors which the police select when they attend
the scene. This does not assign blame for the accident but gives an indication of
factors the attending officer thought contributed to the accident. This includes the
contributory factors of ‘Deposit on road’ and ‘Animal or object in carriageway’, which
might be used to record litter and debris.</p><p> </p><p>‘Deposit on road’ includes
any deposit arising from human (or animal) activity which has made sections of the
road surface slippery or which has caused traction control problems for a vehicle.
‘Animal or object in carriageway’ includes any object which the driver would not expect
to find in the carriageway (e.g. dislodged vehicle load, fallen tree) and which caused
or contributed to the accident.</p><p> </p><p>There were 1,058 road accidents with
a contributory factor of ‘Deposit on road’ and 802 road accidents with a contributory
factor of ‘Animal or object in carriageway’ in Great Britain in 2017.</p><p> </p><p>Statistics
on the number and proportion of accidents by contributory factor reported are available
online in table RAS50001. All published tables on contributory factors are available
in the RAS50 series on gov.uk.</p><p> </p><p>The data we hold only covers reported
personal injury road accidents in Great Britain, we do not have data for Northern
Ireland.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>
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