Level Crossings: Accidents

(asked on 7th July 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many (a) serious and (b) fatal incidents have occurred at level crossings in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Lilian Greenwood Portrait
Lilian Greenwood
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 10th July 2025

The number of fatalities and serious injuries at level crossings in Great Britain in each of the last five years is set out in the table below. This covers each reporting year and available data from April 2020 to March 2025.

Person type

2020/21

2021/22

2022/23

2023/24

2024/2025

Fatalities (excluding suicide)

Pedestrian

7

7

4

0

5

Road Vehicle Occupant

0

0

1

1

0

Train Occupant

0

0

0

0

0

Total

7

7

5

1

5

Serious injuries

Pedestrian

4

1

9

3

4

Road Vehicle Occupant

1

0

0

1

0

Train Occupant

0

0

0

0

0

Total

5

1

9

4

4

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