Reported road casualties Great Britain: older and younger driver factsheets
These factsheets provide an overview of casualties in collisions involving older (aged 70 and over) and younger (aged 17 to 24) drivers.
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These factsheet presents the latest available statistics for casualties in reported road collisions involving older (aged 70 and over) and younger (aged 17 to 24) car drivers, which are groups with a relatively high rate of injury in road collisions.
Previously separate documents were published covering each age group; these have now been combined into one factsheet covering both.
The factsheet covers:
- trends over time
- who is injured (casualty age and sex)
- nature of older or younger driver collisions, including time of day, road type and junction location
- contributory factors assigned to older or younger drivers compared to drivers of other ages
These factsheets present high level trends based on killed or seriously injured (KSI) casualties. More detailed analysis can be carried out using the road safety open datasets and the road safety statistics team welcome feedback on anything further that would be useful to include.
Equivalent factsheets based on data for earlier years are also available, for example older drivers based on 2020 data, 2021 data, 2022 data, 2023 data and 2024 data.
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Road safety statistics
Email roadacc.stats@dft.gov.uk
Updates to this page
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Updated factsheets into one younger older driver factsheet.
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Updated with 2025 data
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First published.