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Reported road casualties Great Britain, provisional results: 2020

Personal injury accident statistics on public roads in Great Britain for 2020.

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Reported road casualties Great Britain, provisional results: 2020 tables

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The recent trends in reported road casualties have been impacted by the national restrictions implemented from March 2020 onwards following the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Alongside the provisional release, we have published a second report investigating the impact on reported road casualties, displaying monthly trends.

Provisional statistics on reported road casualties in Great Britain for 2020 show that there were:

  • 1,472 reported road deaths, a decrease of 16% from 2019
  • 115,333 casualties of all severities in 2020, down by 25% from 2019
  • casualties saw the greatest monthly percentage decrease of 68% in April 2020, compared to 3-year average for 2017 to 2019

A more comprehensive analysis of 2020 casualty statistics will be published later this year in Reported road casualties Great Britain, annual report.

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Published 24 June 2021