UK collision and casualty statistics

United Kingdom

• 1,671 road deaths
• 28,804 serious injuries
• 105,291 slight injuries
• 135,766 casualties of all severities

Great Britain (UK excluding Northern Ireland)

• 1,602 road deaths
• 27,865 serious injuries
• 98,805 slight injuries
• 128,272 casualties of all severities

England

• 1,353 road deaths
• 24,697 serious injuries
• 92,496 slight injuries
• 118,546 casualties of all severities

Wales

• 84 road deaths
• 1,190 serious injuries
• 2,727 slight injuries
• 4,001 casualties of all severities

Scotland

• 165 road deaths
• 1,977 serious injuries
• 3,583 slight injuries
• 5,725 casualties of all severities

Northern Ireland

• 69 road deaths
• 939 serious injuries
• 6,486 slight injuries
• 7,494 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 2024 [1].

• Car occupant deaths / serious injuries = 692 / 11,044
• Pedestrian deaths / serious injuries = 409 / 5,823
• Motorcycle user deaths / serious injuries = 340 / 5,465
• Cyclist deaths / serious injuries = 82 / 3,822
• Bus, truck, van and unknown vehicle occupant deaths / serious injuries = 79 / 1,708

Source: RAS0201: Reported road casualties by severity and road user type, Great Britain, 10 years up to 2024 [2].

Pedestrian deaths / serious injuries

• Children (0-15) = 20 / 1,253
• Young people (16-24) = 23 / 685
• Adults (25-59) = 172 / 2,237
• Adults (60+) = 194 / 1,593

Cyclist deaths / serious injuries

• Children (0-15) = 4 / 338
• Young people (16-24) = 7 / 504
• Adults (25-59) = 37 / 2,341
• Adults (60+) = 34 / 585

Car occupant deaths / serious injuries

• Children (0-15) = 22 / 537
• Young people (16-24) = 138 / 2,420
• Adults (25-59) = 301 / 5,383
• Adults (60+) = 231 / 2,636

Motorcyclist occupant deaths / serious injuries

• Children (0-15) = 1 / 80
• Young people (16-24) = 70 / 1,631
• Adults (25-59) = 215 / 3,023
• Adults (60+) = 54 / 697

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

• Children (0-15) = 0 / 168
• Young people (16-24) = 5 / 255
• Adults (25-59) = 50 / 904
• Adults (60+) = 24 / 347

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 2024 [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 = 115 / 1,853
• Pedestrian death / serious injury rate = 27 / 391
• Cyclist death / serious injury rate = 23 / 1,085
• Car occupant death / serious injury rate = 3 / 43
• Van occupant death / serious injury rate = 1 / 9
• Truck occupant death / serious injury rate = 1 / 8
• Bus occupant death / serious injury rate = 2 / 164

Source: RAS0201: Reported road casualty numbers and rates by severity and road user type, Great Britain, 10 years up to 2024 [4].

• 25% across all car occupants
• 20% for drivers
• 34% for passengers

Car occupants were not wearing seatbelts in more than a third (39%) of fatal collisions in the evening and night (6pm to 8am).

42% of car occupants aged under 16, and 41% of car occupants aged 17-29 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 2015 [5].

Police recorded that

• speed was a road safety factor in 59% of road deaths
• exceeding the speed limit was a road safety factor in 21% of road deaths
• travelling too fast or exceeding the speed limit was a road safety factor in 29% 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 2024 [6]

Across 32 European countries, the UK has the fourth lowest road death rate per million of the population at 24 deaths per million population.

Norway has the lowest death rate per million of the population at 16 deaths per million population – 33% 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].