Statistical data set

Road safety statistics: data tables

Detailed statistics about reported personal injury road collisions for Great Britain, vehicles and casualties involved.

These tables present high-level breakdowns and time series. A list of all tables, including those discontinued, is available in the table index. More detailed data is available in our data tools, or by downloading the open dataset.

Latest data and table index

The tables below are the latest final annual statistics for 2023. The latest data currently available are provisional figures for the year ending June 2024. These are available from the latest provisional statistics.

A list of all reported road collisions and casualties data tables and variables in our data download tool is available in the Tables index (ODS, 30.2 KB).

All collision, casualty and vehicle tables

Reported road collisions and casualties data tables (zip file) (ZIP, 16.6 MB)

RAS0101: Collisions, casualties and vehicles involved by road user type since 1926 (ODS, 52.1 KB)

RAS0102: Casualties and casualty rates, by road user type and age group, since 1979 (ODS, 142 KB)

Road user type (RAS02)

RAS0201: Numbers and rates (ODS, 60.7 KB)

RAS0202: Sex and age group (ODS, 167 KB)

RAS0203: Rates by mode, including air, water and rail modes (ODS, 23.3 KB)

Road type (RAS03)

RAS0301: Speed limit, built-up and non-built-up roads (ODS, 49.3 KB)

RAS0302: Urban and rural roads (ODS, 75.2 KB)

RAS0303: Strategic road network (ODS, 20.8 KB)

Further statistics covering casualties on the strategic road network, including smart motorways, are published by National Highways.

Geographical breakdowns (RAS04)

RAS0401: Police force area (ODS, 66.8 KB)

RAS0402: Country and region (ODS, 79.7 KB)

From the publication of the 2023 statistics onwards, casualty rates shown in table RAS0403 to include rates based on motor vehicle traffic only. This is because the department does not consider pedal cycle traffic to be robust at the local authority level.

RAS0403: Local authority (ODS, 1.99 MB)

RAS0404: International comparisons (ODS, 26.8 KB)

Further international comparisons of road safety data are available from the International Traffic Safety Data and Analysis group (IRTAD).

Vehicles and drivers (RAS05)

RAS0501: Drivers involved by sex, age and road user type (ODS, 129 KB)

RAS0502: Vehicles involved and involvement rates (ODS, 58.3 KB)

RAS0503: Vehicle type and manoeuvre (ODS, 49.9 KB)

RAS0504: Vehicle type and road type (built up and non built up roads) (ODS, 67.3 KB)

RAS0505: Left-hand drive vehicles (ODS, 61.5 KB)

RAS0506: Journey purpose (ODS, 81.6 KB)

RAS0507: Propulsion type (ODS, 96.2 KB)

Casualties and vehicles combination (RAS06)

RAS0601: Collisions and casualties by vehicle and road user type involved (ODS, 62.4 KB)

Factors contributing to collisions and casualties (RAS07)

Drink-drive collisions

Detailed data tables for drink-drive collisions are shown in section RAS20 below.

Contributory factors

Following the latest STATS19 review, contributory factors (CFs) are being replaced by new road safety factors (RSFs), in many police forces from late 2023 onwards. Consequently, we are presenting the contributory factor data mapped to these new factors alongside the existing tables to aid in the transition to the new approach from next year. For further information see our road safety factors initial analysis.

RAS0701: Collisions, casualties and road user type CF (ODS, 866 KB) and RSF (ODS, 554 KB)

RAS0702: Vehicle type CF (ODS, 567 KB) and RSF (ODS, 372 KB)

RAS0703: Road class (motorway, A road, B road, other road) CF (ODS, 120 KB) and RSF (ODS, 87.8 KB)

RAS0704: Speed-related factors CF (ODS, 27 KB) (for RSFs speed is a defined section)

RAS0705: Region and country CF (ODS, 453 KB) and RSF (ODS, 281 KB)

RAS0706: Local authority CF (ODS, 5 MB) and RSF (ODS, 3.09 MB)

Seatbelt non-wearing

RAS0711: Proportion of fatalities not wearing seatbelts (ODS, 14.1 KB)

Drink-drive collisions and casualties (RAS20)

All drink-drive data tables

Reported drink drive data tables (Excel format) (ZIP, 244 KB)

RAS2001: Reported drink-drive collisions and casualties in Great Britain (ODS, 12.3 KB)

Characteristics of drink-drive collisions

RAS2011: By month (ODS, 10.6 KB)

RAS2012: By time of day (ODS, 18.7 KB)

RAS2013: By country and English region (ODS, 24 KB)

Drivers and riders involved

RAS2021: By sex of driver or rider (ODS, 15.1 KB)

RAS2022: By age of driver (cars only) (ODS, 19 KB)

Casualties in drink-drive collisions

RAS2031: All casualties by casualty type, sex and age (ODS, 29.2 KB)

RAS2032: Driver and rider fatalities percentage over the legal blood alcohol limit (ODS, 16.2 KB)

RAS2033 : Fatalities aged 16 and over by blood alcohol level (ODS, 23.4 KB)

Breath tests

Figures on roadside breath tests for England and Wales, previously shown in table RAS51016, are published by the Home Office in their Police Powers and Procedures statistics.

RAS2041: Breath tests drivers or riders involved in reported road collisions in Great Britain (ODS, 13.9 KB)

RAS2042: Screening test results in England and Wales, by reason for test (ODS, 17.7 KB)

Self-reported drink-driving

Data tables on self-reported drink driving, drug driving and driver mobile phone use are published in our factsheet on self-reported driver behaviour available from the factsheets page.

Other road safety data (RAS40)

Cost of preventing collisions

RAS4001: Average and total value of prevention of collisions (ODS, 47.9 KB)

Comparing police road casualty data with other sources

RAS4101: Hospital admissions data on road casualties (ODS, 27.4 KB) - data currently available up to 2020

RAS4201: National Travel Survey self-reported injuries in road collisions (ODS, 33.3 KB)

RAS4301: Death registrations data - this table will be added in due course

Motoring offences

Statistics on motoring offences are published annually by the Ministry of Justice as part of their criminal justice statistics and the Home Office in their police powers and procedures statistics.

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Road safety statistics

Updates to this page

Published 24 June 2021
Last updated 28 November 2024 + show all updates
  1. Link to latest provisional data added and a link in the RAS07 series tables has been updated. Tables index also updated.

  2. 2023 data added.

  3. Data tables, vehicle type (RAS0403_new) and local authority (RAS0702) updated.

  4. Added new RAS0403 table and an informational box on this change.

  5. 2022 reported road casualties Great Britain data tables published.

  6. Table RAS0203 updated with 2021 data for rail, air and water. Table RAS0706 added.

  7. Table RAS0303 updated with longer time series, RAS0403 with new local authority breakdown, RAS0502 minor clarification.

  8. Data for 2021 added and tables reformatted to meet accessibility guidance.

  9. Added details of forthcoming changes to tables

  10. Data tables for motor vehicle offences (findings of guilt at all courts), passenger casualty rates by mode updated for Transport Statistics Great Britain 2021 report. Data tables included in the report are usually updated during the year.

  11. Updated with annual 2020 statistics.

  12. First published.