UK collision and casualty statistics

United Kingdom

• 1,695 road deaths
• 28,967 serious injuries
• 110,300 slight injuries
• 140,962 casualties of all severities

Great Britain (UK excluding Northern Ireland)

• 1,624 road deaths
• 28,087 serious injuries
• 103,266 slight injuries
• 132,977 casualties of all severities

England

• 1,370 road deaths
• 24,878 serious injuries
• 96,584 slight injuries
• 122,832 casualties of all severities

Wales

• 101 road deaths
• 1,278 serious injuries
• 2,965 slight injuries
• 4,344 casualties of all severities

Scotland

• 153 road deaths
• 1,931 serious injuries
• 3,717 slight injuries
• 5,801 casualties of all severities

Northern Ireland

• 71 road deaths
• 880 serious injuries
• 7,034 slight injuries
• 7,985 casualties of all severities

Source: RAS0402: Reported road collision and casualty numbers and rates by severity, region and country, United Kingdom, ten years up to 2023 [1]

• Car occupant deaths / serious injuries = 725 / 10,939
• Pedestrian deaths / serious injuries = 405 / 6,067
• Motorcycle user deaths / serious injuries = 315 / 5,481
• Cyclist deaths / serious injuries = 87 / 3,942
• Bus, truck, van and unknown vehicle occupant deaths / serious injuries = 92 / 1,658

Source: RAS0201: Reported road casualties by severity and road user type, Great Britain, 10 years up to 2023 [2]

Pedestrian deaths / serious injuries

• Children (0-15) = 25 / 1,318
• Young people (16-24) = 30 / 735
• Adults (25-59) = 159 / 2,392
• Adults (60+) = 191 / 1,573

Cyclist deaths / serious injuries

• Children (0-15) = 6 / 325
• Young people (16-24) = 6 / 527
• Adults (25-59) = 46 / 2,483
• Adults (60+) = 29 / 566

Car occupant deaths / serious injuries

• Children (0-15) = 23 / 486
• Young people (16-24) = 168 / 2,447
• Adults (25-59) = 285 / 5,298
• Adults (60+) = 249 / 2,619

Motorcyclist occupant deaths / serious injuries

• Children (0-15) = 1 / 83
• Young people (16-24) = 61 / 1,579
• Adults (25-59) = 187 / 3,142
• Adults (60+) = 66 / 653

Bus, truck, van and unknown vehicle occupant deaths / serious injuries

• Children (0-15) = 4 / 125
• Young people (16-24) = 12 / 239
• Adults (25-59) = 53 / 928
• Adults (60+) = 23 / 335

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 2023 [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 = 111 / 1,923
• Pedestrian death / serious injury rate = 27 / 407
• Cyclist death / serious injury rate = 24 / 1,091
• Car occupant death / serious injury rate = 3 / 44
• Van occupant death / serious injury rate = 1 / 10
• Truck occupant death / serious injury rate = 1 / 9
• Bus occupant death / serious injury rate = 2 / 182

Source: RAS0201: Reported road casualty numbers and rates by severity and road user type, Great Britain, 10 years up to 2023 [4]

• 25% across all car occupants
• 23% for drivers
• 28% for passengers

Car occupants were not wearing seatbelts in more than a third (38%) of fatal collisions in the evening and night (6pm to 8am).

36% of car occupants aged 17-29 and 30-59 killed on roads were not wearing seatbelts.

Note: These statistics exclude deaths where seatbelt-wearing status is unknown (about half of collisions involving a death).

Source: RAS0711: Proportion of car occupant fatalities not wearing a seatbelt: Great Britain, from 2014 [5]

Police recorded that

• exceeding the speed limit was a contributory factor in 22% of deaths
• travelling too fast or exceeding the speed limit was a contributory factor in 27% of deaths

Note: Contributory 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 contributory factor was reported.

This year, data was also collected directly as road safety factors. On this measurement, police recorded that:

• 58% of deaths on the road had speed as a road safety factor

Source: RAS0704: Reported road collisions, casualties and vehicles where speed was a contributory factor by severity, Great Britain, 10 years up to 2023 [6]

RAS0701: Reported road collisions and casualties by severity, road safety factors and road user type, Great Britain, 10 years up to 2023 [7]

Across 32 European countries, the UK has the third lowest road death rate per million of the population at 25 deaths per million population.

Norway has the lowest death rate per million of the population at 20 deaths per million population – 20% lower than the figure for the UK.

Source: RAS0404: International comparisons of road deaths, number and rates for different road users, by selected countries [8]