Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many people were (1) killed, or (2) seriously injured, in road traffic accidents in England in the most recent year for which statistics are available; and what the comparable figures were for (1) 5 years, and (2) 10 years, earlier.
Data on road collisions involving personal injury are reported to the Department by police forces in Great Britain via the STATS19 system. The latest year for which data is available is 2024.
The number of killed or seriously injured casualties in reported road traffic collisions in England are shown in the table:
Severity | 2014 | 2019 | 2024 |
Killed | 1,472 | 1,489 | 1,353 |
Serious | 28,197 | 24,773 | 26,697 |