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Motor Vehicles: Lighting

Commons · Question 85970 · Tabled 28 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport · Official record

Answered 31 Oct 2025

Question

Asked by Andrew Snowden

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate her Department has made of the number of road traffic accidents caused by LED headlights affecting drivers' vision.

Answer

Answered by Lilian Greenwood, 31 Oct 2025

The Department does not hold data relating to the number of collisions caused by LED highlights specifically.The Department’s published road casualty statistics include figures for the number of collisions where ‘vision affected by dazzling headlights’ wa...