Accredited official statistics

Reported road casualties in Great Britain, final estimates involving illegal alcohol levels: 2016

Final estimates on personal injury drink drive accidents in Great Britain for 2016.

• From: Department for Transport
• Published: 9 August 2018

Documents

Reported road casualties in Great Britain, final estimates involving illegal alcohol levels: 2016 report

PDF, 360 KB, 9 pages

Reported road casualties in Great Britain, final estimates involving illegal alcohol levels: 2016 tables

ZIP, 222 KB

This file may not be suitable for users of assistive technology.

Request an accessible format.

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a version of this document in a more accessible format, please email webmasterdft@dft.gov.uk. Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use.

Details

Final estimates of casualties in accidents involving at least one driver or rider over the drink-drive limit in Great Britain for 2016 show that:

• between 220 and 250 people were killed in drink-drive accidents, with a central estimate of 230 fatalities
• the increase in drink-drive fatalities since 2015 is not statistically significant, continuing a period of stability recorded since 2010
• an estimated 9,040 people were killed or injured in drink-drive accidents, a rise of 7% since 2015
• the total number of drink-drive accidents rose by 6% to 6,070 in 2016

Background information on how drink-drive estimates are calculated can be found in the methodology note.

Contact us

Road safety statistics

Email roadacc.stats@dft.gov.uk

Published 9 August 2018