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Road safety statistics

Statistics and data about reported collisions and casualties on public roads in Great Britain.

From:
Department for Transport
Published
26 September 2013
Last updated
28 November 2024 — See all updates

Latest road casualty statistics

Annual road casualty statistics are published provisionally in May with final detailed statistics released in September. Provisional figures for the first half of the year are published in November. Estimates of drink-drive collisions and casualties are published separately, annually in July.

The latest publications are listed below. Previous annual, provisional and drink-drive road casualty statistics are available.

Road safety statistics by topic

Factsheets, ad-hoc publications and reports on specific topic areas.

Road safety data

Road safety data is available in spreadsheet tables and a range of interactive tools. The full datasets can also be downloaded as open data.

Road safety datasets: available on data.gov.uk

Background information

Statistics on road safety in Great Britain are mostly based on personal-injury collisions reported to the police in the STATS19 data collection. Further information on STATS19, including strengths and limitations, can be found in the guidance below.

Most of the statistics published are accredited official statistics. Road casualty statistics were assessed by the UK Statistics Authority and confirmed as accredited official statistics in July 2009 and again in 2013 with a further compliance check in 2019.

Updates to this page

Published 26 September 2013
Last updated 28 November 2024 + show all updates

  1. Provisional figures for year to June 2024 published.

  2. Reported road casualties for Great Britain annual report for 2023 published.

  3. 2022 drink drive statistics published.

  4. 2023 provisional annual statistics and seatbelt and mobile phone use surveys published.

  5. Statistics for year ending June 2023 added.

  6. 2022 reported road casualties Great Britain published

  7. 2021 drink-drive statistics published.

  8. 2022 provisional statistics added.

  9. 2022 mid-year statistics published

  10. 2021 final statistics published

  11. 2020 final drink-drive, 2021 seatbelt and mobile phone survey and linking police and fire data feasibility study publications added.

  12. 2021 provisional annual statistics published.

  13. Illegal alcohol levels provisional estimates for 2020 added.

  14. Provisional estimates for year ending June 2021 added

  15. Annual report 2020 and new factsheet and methodology pages added

  16. Reported road casualties in Great Britain, final estimates involving illegal alcohol levels 2019 added. Collection page amended and updated.

  17. Reported road casualties Great Britain, provisional results 2020 and new guidance pages added to the collection.

  18. Reported road casualties in Great Britain, provisional estimates involving illegal alcohol levels: 2019 added to collection

  19. Reported road casualties in Great Britain, provisional estimates: year ending June 2020 report added to collection.

  20. Reported road casualties Great Britain report for 2019 added to collection.

  21. Final estimates for illegal alcohol levels for the year 2018 added to collection.

  22. Reported road casualties provisional results for 2019 added to the collection.

  23. Drink-drive provisional estimates for the year 2018 release added to the drink-drive estimates section.

  24. Collection page updated for Reported road casualties in Great Britain, provisional estimates year ending June 2019.

  25. Collection updated for 'Reported road casualties Great Britain, annual report: 2018'.

  26. Collection page updated for 'Reported Road Casualties in Great Britain, final estimates involving illegal alcohol levels: 2017'.

  27. Added main results 2018 publication.

  28. New release published about personal injury drink drive accidents for the year 2017.

  29. New release published. Other road safety statistics group list updated to show the latest seatbelt and mobile phone use surveys for 2017.

  30. Collection updated.

  31. Text updated.

  32. New release published.

  33. New reported road casualties reports added.

  34. New release published.

  35. New release published.

  36. New release published.

  37. New releases published.

  38. Content for text and headings updated.

  39. New release published.

  40. New release published.

  41. New releases published.

  42. New release published.

  43. New releases published.

  44. 'Reported road casualties in Great Britain: main results 2014' published.

  45. First published.

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