Road safety statistics: topic summaries and ad-hoc reports
Road safety factsheets relating to specific road user groups and any one-off or ad-hoc statistics
This page contains factsheets based on road casualty data collected via the STATS19 survey, and ad-hoc analysis on road safety topics. Details on the coverage of the STATS19 collection is available from the coverage and definitions section of the road casualty statistics guidance page.
This page is updated as new factsheets are available. We welcome suggestions for topics of interest by email to roadacc.stats@dft.gov.uk.
Vulnerable road users
e-scooters: latest final data for 2023, and previous 2022, 2021 and 2020 data.
Pedal cyclists: latest 2023 final data and previous 2022, 2021 and 2020 data.
Motorcyclists: latest 2023 final data and previous 2022, 2021 and 2020 data.
Pedestrians: latest 2023 final data and previous 2022 and 2021 data.
Demographics
Older and younger drivers: latest 2023 final data and previous 2022 and 2021 data.
Deprivation and road casualties: latest 2023 final data
Road user risk
Road user risk: latest 2023 final data and previous 2022 and 2021 data.
Factors contributing to collisions
Road safety factors: an initial analysis of the potential impact on the published statistics of the transition to the new road safety factors.
Fatal collisions: analysis of the ‘fatal 4’ factors (speed, alcohol and drugs, seatbelt non-wearing and mobile device use) presented using the new road safety factors classification.
Driver behaviours (drink, drugs, seatbelts, mobile phone use)
Developing drug-driving statistics for road fatalities. An initial feasibility study exploring drugs present in motor vehicle drivers and riders killed in reported road collisions, updated with data to 2022.
Self-reported driver behaviour (drink and drug driving, and driver mobile phone use) from questions on the Crime Survey for England and Wales.
Seatbelt and driver mobile phone use based on observational surveys in 2023.
Injury severity and collision outcomes
Injury severity and type of injury: 2019 to 2023 data with injury-based reporting systems
Analysis of hospital data on road casualties including serious e-scooter casualties, and initial feasibility studies linking STATS19 and trauma data
Fire service data on road casualties, a feasibility study linking data to STATS19.
Older factsheets
A number of previous road safety factsheets remain available, though do not include the most recent data
- Pedestrians (PDF, 572KB) based on 2013 data
- Pedal cyclists (PDF, 561KB) - based on 2016 data
- Older (PDF, 485KB) and younger (PDF, 542KB) car drivers – based on 2016 data
- Child casualties (PDF, 465KB) – based on 2013 data
- Road fatalities (PDF, 515KB) – based on 2013 data
Updates to this page
Published 30 September 2021Last updated 26 September 2024 + show all updates
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Updated with 2023 statistics.
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E-scooter factsheet with provisional 2023 data and road safety factors initial analysis added.
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E-scooter factsheet for year ending June 2023 added.
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Factsheets for the 2022 reported road casualties Great Britain report published.
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2022 provisional e-scooter factsheet published
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2022 e-scooter factsheet and 2021 deprivation factsheet added
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2021 factsheets added.
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Added URL to new e-scooter and older driver factsheets.
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Added a link to new factsheet on injury-based reporting.
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2021 e-scooter and motorcycle factsheets added
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First published.