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Road Traffic Offences: Driverless Vehicles

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department maintains a record of safety interventions, traffic contraventions and near-misses arising from autonomous vehicle trials.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
5 Feb 2026
Target answer date
9 Feb 2026
Answer
16 Feb 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 5 Feb 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department maintains a record of safety interventions, traffic contraventions and near-misses arising from autonomous vehicle trials.

  2. 9 Feb 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 16 Feb 2026

    Answer published

    The Department for Transport does not retain a specific record as set out in the Honourable Member’s question. However, any data related to any incidents from automated vehicle trials, which take place with a safety driver in the vehicle, would be capture...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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