Changes to road casualty statistics: user feedback request
Published 25 May 2022
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The road safety statistics team regularly reviews the contents of its publications to ensure they remain relevant and meet user needs. We have recently reviewed the reported road casualties’ statistics and would welcome feedback from users which can be provided by completing our feedback survey or by emailing the road safety statistics team.
Proposed changes to terminology used for casualty statistics
Currently, the terminology used for these statistics is to refer to road accidents, in line with the terminology used in the Road Traffic Act. Following feedback from users of these statistics, in future we intend to instead refer to collisions, rather than accidents. These changes will be made for forthcoming publications.
Question 1: Are you content with the proposed change to refer to collisions, rather than accidents, for the purposes of these statistics?
Proposed changes to tables issued with provisional and final reported road casualties’ statistics
In accordance with the departments policy on spreadsheet accessibility, we are working on making reported road casualties data tables accessible, resulting in some changes to the format and structure of the current data tables. At the same time, we are proposing to make some further changes to the tables to streamline them and make it easier for users to find the statistics of most interest to them.
We propose to group tables that we continue to publish as follows:
| Final annual casualty and collision data | Title |
|---|---|
| RAS01 | Historic trends |
| RAS02 | Road user type |
| RAS03 | Road type |
| RAS04 | Country, region, and local authority |
| RAS05 | Vehicles and drivers |
| RAS06 | Casualties and vehicles combination |
| RAS07 | Contributory factors |
| Drink and drug driving | Title |
|---|---|
| RAS20 | Drink drive collisions and casualties |
| RAS21 | Crime survey data on drink and drug driving |
| Other road safety data | Title |
|---|---|
| RAS40 | Cost of collisions and casualties |
| RAS41 | Hospital data |
| Provisional casualty data | Title |
|---|---|
| RAS90 | Mid-year (year to June) provisional casualties |
| RAS91 | Annual provisional casualties |
A list of all new tables and a look up to the old tables, and reasons for changes, including where tables will be dropped, is available in spreadsheet form. For further details of changes, please contact the road safety statistics team.
The tables we are retaining will be redesigned and made accessible to meet accessibility regulations, and to make them easier to understand to meet user needs. This may involve combining information currently published in separate tables.
We would really appreciate if you could answer the following feedback questions about the new design and structure of our tables:
Question 2: Do any of the proposed changes cause problems with your work?
Question 3: If yes, please specify details of how you have used the information we are proposing to no longer publish
Other aspects of road casualty statistics
In addition to the publications and data tables, we will continue to make data available via our data download tool and dashboard. We always welcome comments on any aspect of the road casualty statistics to inform future developments.
Question 4: What other dissemination tools available for our stats do you use? For what purpose?
Questions 5: Have you got any other feedback on the reported road casualties statistics?
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