Roads: Accidents

(asked on 15th June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the total number of people (1) killed, and (2) seriously injured, in road accidents in each of the last ten years.


Answered by
Baroness Vere of Norbiton Portrait
Baroness Vere of Norbiton
Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury)
This question was answered on 29th June 2020

The number of killed and seriously injured casualties in reported road accidents as reported by the police to DfT, in Great Britain, between 2009 and 2018 can be found in the below table:

Reported road casualties, by severity, Great Britain, 2009-20181,2

Severity

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

Killed

2,222

1,850

1,901

1,754

1,713

1,775

1,730

1,792

1,793

1,784

Seriously injured (unadjusted)

24,690

22,660

23,122

23,039

21,657

22,807

22,144

24,101

24,831

25,511

Source: DfT, STATS19

1. Figures for serious injuries are as reported by police. Since 2016, changes in severity reporting systems for a large number of police forces mean that serious injury figures, and to a lesser extent slight injuries, are not comparable with earlier years. Adjustments to account for the change have been produced for high level series. More information on the change and the adjustment process is available in the 2018 annual report.


2. The data includes all motor vehicles, cyclists and horse riders.

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