Roads: Accidents

(asked on 21st January 2026) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill Portrait
Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill
Minister of State (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 2nd February 2026

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

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