UK collision and casualty statistics

United Kingdom

• 1,766 road deaths
• 28,941 serious injuries
• 112,619 slight injuries
• 143,326 casualties of all severities

Great Britain (UK excluding Northern Ireland)

• 1,711 road deaths
• 28,031 serious injuries
• 105,738 slight injuries
• 135,480 casualties of all severities

England

• 1,443 road deaths
• 25,018 serious injuries
• 98,963 slight injuries
• 125,424 casualties of all severities

Wales

• 95 road deaths
• 1,241 serious injuries
• 3,109 slight injuries
• 4,445 casualties of all severities

Scotland

• 173 road deaths
• 1,772 serious injuries
• 3,666 slight injuries
• 5,611 casualties of all severities

Northern Ireland

• 55 road deaths
• 910 serious injuries
• 6,881 slight injuries
• 7,846 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 2022 [1]

• Car occupant deaths / serious injuries = 788 / 10,711
• Pedestrian deaths / serious injuries = 385 / 5,901
• Motorcycle user deaths / serious injuries = 350 / 5,618
• Cyclist deaths / serious injuries = 91 / 4,056
• Bus, truck, van and unknown vehicle occupant deaths / serious injuries = 97 / 1,745

Source: RAS0201: Reported road casualties by severity and road user type, Great Britain, 10 years up to 2022 [2]

Pedestrian deaths / serious injuries

• Children (0-15) = 17 / 1,401
• Young people (16-24) = 31 / 744
• Adults (25-59) = 165 / 2,257
• Adults (60+) = 172 / 1,460

Cyclist deaths / serious injuries

• Children (0-15) = 4 / 325
• Young people (16-24) = 3 / 526
• Adults (25-59) = 45 / 2,581
• Adults (60+) = 39 / 571

Car occupant deaths / serious injuries

• Children (0-15) = 20 / 452
• Young people (16-24) = 182 / 2,398
• Adults (25-59) = 306 / 5,261
• Adults (60+) = 280 / 2,520

Motorcyclist occupant deaths / serious injuries

• Children (0-15) = 4 / 88
• Young people (16-24) = 63 / 1,535
• Adults (25-59) = 223 / 3,320
• Adults (60+) = 60 / 635

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

• Children (0-15) = 4 / 135
• Young people (16-24) = 14 / 271
• Adults (25-59) = 56 / 959
• Adults (60+) = 23 / 351

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 2022 [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 = 123 / 1,980
• Pedestrian death / serious injury rate = 27 / 406
• Cyclist death / serious injury rate = 23 / 1,041
• Car occupant death / serious injury rate = 3 / 44
• Van occupant death / serious injury rate = 1 / 7
• Truck occupant death / serious injury rate = 1 / 8
• Bus occupant death / serious injury rate = 1 / 141

Source: RAS0201: Reported road casualty numbers and rates by severity and road user type, Great Britain, 10 years up to 2022 [4]

• 21% across all car occupants
• 21% for drivers
• 22% for passengers

Car occupants were not wearing seatbelts in almost half (42%) of fatal collisions in the evening and night (6pm to 8am).

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 2013 [5]

Police recorded that

• exceeding the speed limit was a contributory factor in 20% of deaths
• travelling too fast or exceeding the speed limit was a contributory factor in 25% 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.

Source: RAS0704: Reported road collisions, casualties and vehicles where speed was a contributory factor by severity, Great Britain, 10 years up to 2022 [6]

Across 32 European countries, the UK has the fourth lowest road death rate per million of the population at 26 deaths per million population.

Norway has the lowest death rate per million of the population at 21 deaths per million population – almost 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 [7]