UK collision and casualty statistics

United Kingdom

• 1,594 road deaths
• 29,446 serious injuries
• 104,722 slight injuries
• 135,762 casualties of all severities (including deaths)

Great Britain (UK excluding Northern Ireland)

• 1,538 road deaths
• 28,380 serious injuries
• 97,965 slight injuries
• 127,883 casualties of all severities (including deaths)

England

• 1,313 road deaths
• 25,204 serious injuries
• 91,753 slight injuries
• 118,270 casualties of all severities (including deaths)

Wales

• 91 road deaths
• 1,270 serious injuries
• 2,717 slight injuries
• 4,078 casualties of all severities (including deaths)

Scotland

• 134 road deaths
• 1,906 serious injuries
• 3,495 slight injuries
• 5,535 casualties of all severities (including deaths)

Northern Ireland

• 56 road deaths
• 1,066 serious injuries
• 6,757 slight injuries
• 7,879 casualties of all severities (including deaths)

Sources: RAS0402: Reported road collision and casualty numbers and rates by severity, region and country, United Kingdom, ten years up to 2025 [1].

Police Service of Northern Ireland (2026) Police Recorded Injury Road Traffic Collisions and Casualties Northern Ireland: 2025 Key Statistics Report

• Car occupant deaths / serious injuries = 629 / 10,674
• Pedestrian deaths / serious injuries = 364 / 5,958
• Motorcycle user deaths / serious injuries = 386 / 5,710
• Cyclist deaths / serious injuries = 79 / 4,311
• Bus, coach, LGV, HGV and other/unknown vehicle occupant deaths / serious injuries = 80 / 1,727

Source: RAS0201: Reported road casualties by severity and road user type, Great Britain, 10 years up to 2025 [2].

Pedestrian deaths / serious injuries

• Children (0-15) = 13 / 1,207
• Young people (16-24) = 31 / 739
• Adults (25-59) = 137 / 2,219
• Adults (60+) = 183 / 1,743

Cyclist deaths / serious injuries

• Children (0-15) = 3 / 420
• Young people (16-24) = 6 / 655
• Adults (25-59) = 34 / 2,510
• Adults (60+) = 36 / 668

Car occupant deaths / serious injuries

• Children (0-15) = 13 / 482
• Young people (16-24) = 150 / 2,311
• Adults (25-59) = 241 / 5,138
• Adults (60+) = 225 / 2,676

Motorcyclist occupant deaths / serious injuries

• Children (0-15) = 4 / 98
• Young people (16-24) = 73 / 1,718
• Adults (25-59) = 233 / 3,056
• Adults (60+) = 76 / 812

Bus, coach, LGV, HGV and other/unknown vehicle occupant deaths / serious injuries

• Children (0-15) = 8 / 183
• Young people (16-24) = 10 / 266
• Adults (25-59) = 30 / 896
• Adults (60+) = 32 / 361

Note: Data on victim age is not recorded for all casualties. Therefore, totals may not add up to total casualty statistics.

Source: RAS0202: Reported road casualties by road user type, sex and age, Great Britain, 10 years up to 2025 [3].

The rate of deaths and serious injuries on roads, per billion miles travelled, provides a valuable understanding of the relative risks we face when we move in different ways. It highlights who is most at risk.

• Motorcyclist user death / serious injury rate = 128 / 1,891
• Pedestrian death / serious injury rate = 24 / 385
• Cyclist death / serious injury rate = 22 / 1,173
• Car occupant death / serious injury rate = 2 / 41
• LGV occupant death / serious injury rate = 1 / 10
• HGV occupant death / serious injury rate = 1 / 6
• Bus and coach occupant death / serious injury rate = 3 / 159

Source: RAS0201: Reported road casualty numbers and rates by severity and road user type, Great Britain, 10 years up to 2025 [4].

• 24% across all car occupants
• 25% for drivers
• 21% for passengers

Car occupants were not wearing seatbelts in more than a third (35%) of fatal collisions in the evening and night (6pm to 8am).

30% of car occupants aged under 16, and 31% of car occupants aged 17-29 killed on roads were not wearing seatbelts.

Note: These statistics exclude deaths where seatbelt-wearing status is unknown (an average of 48% of collisions over the last five years of data).

Source: RAS0711: Proportion of car occupant fatalities not wearing a seatbelt: Great Britain, from 2016 [5].

Police recorded that

• speed was a road safety factor in 52% of road deaths
• exceeding the speed limit was a road safety factor in 29% of road deaths
• travelling too fast or exceeding the speed limit was a road safety factor in 25% of road deaths

Note: Road safety factors are as reported by the police at the scene. These statistics only include casualties in collisions where a police officer attended the scene and in which a road safety factor was reported. This data has also converted previous contributory factors to the new road safety factor system.

RAS0701: Reported road collisions and casualties by severity, road safety factors and road user type, Great Britain, 10 years up to 2025 [6]

Across 32 European countries, the UK has the fourth lowest road death rate per million of the population at 23 deaths per million population.

Norway has the lowest death rate per million of the population at 18 deaths per million population – 24% lower than the figure for the UK.

Source: RAS0404: International comparisons of road deaths, number and rates for different road users, by selected countries [7].