Guidance
Impact of online reporting of road casualties
This note explores the impact of the introduction of online reporting of road accidents in some police force areas on the Department's road casualty statistics
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Online self-reporting is part of a wider project for digital public contact called Single Online Home (SOH) funded by the Home Office to allow people involved in road traffic accidents to report the collision to the police online should they choose to do so rather than having to physically report it at a police station.
The department has undertaken work as part of the recent STATS19 review to assess the scale of the discontinuity caused by the introduction of online reporting so far, and consider how to adjust for this as more forces roll it out.
Published 30 September 2021