Road safety statistics: topic summaries and ad-hoc reports
Factsheets and analysis relating to reported road casualty statistics, including more detailed analysis of topics covered in the annual publication, as well as development work.
The annual reported road casualties publication now consists of a series of topic-based chapters covering different aspects of road safety statistics. In many cases, these chapters provide an overview of a topic, with additional detail available in the factsheets and analysis linked below.
Details on the coverage of the STATS19 collection, which provides the data for most of these analyses, 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.
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The annual reported road casualties publication now consists of a series of topic-based chapters covering different aspects of road safety statistics. In many cases, these chapters provide an overview of a topic, with additional detail available in the factsheets and analysis linked below.
The following guide can help you find the most relevant statistics and analysis for your topic of interest.
- Overall casualty trends, fatalities or serious injuries – see the overall casualties by severity chapter and injury severity analysis, including data linking
- Road safety strategy targets and indicators monitoring – see the Safety Performance Indicators chapter
- Older and younger people – see the casualty demographics chapter and older and younger drivers factsheet
- Road user risk by mode of travel – see the road user type chapter, vehicles involved in collisions chapter and the vulnerable road user factsheets
- Vulnerable road users - pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists or e-scooters - see the road user type chapter and the vulnerable road user factsheets
- Regional, local authority or international comparisons – see the geography and place chapter and associated data tables and tools
- Work-related collisions – see the see the risk behaviours and circumstances chapter and work-related collisions analysis
- Speed, drink driving, drug driving, seatbelts or mobile phone use – see the risk behaviours and circumstances chapter and fatal four factsheets
- Why collisions happen – see the road safety factors chapter and fatal four factsheets
Overall casualties, injury severity and collision outcomes
Latest casualty numbers and trends are presented in the overall casualties by severity chapter of the annual publication, with latest annual data for monitoring road safety strategy targets and indicators in the Safety Performance Indicators chapter. Further analysis, considering other datasets includes:
- Injury severity and type from injury-based reporting systems, data to 2024 - from 2025, figures are included in the main report
- Analysis of hospital data on road casualties including serious e-scooter casualties, and feasibility studies linking STATS19 and trauma data and STATS19 and ambulance service data
- Linking police and fire service data on road casualties, a feasibility study
Road user type, including vulnerable road users
High-level statistics on road users by type are included in the road user type chapter of the annual report. The vehicles chapter includes an analysis of the risk to other road users by type. More detailed analysis for vulnerable road users is available in factsheets covering:
- e-scooter casualties factsheet based on STATS19 data, and an ad-hoc analysis of serious e-scooter casualties from hospital trauma data
- Pedal cyclist casualties factsheet
- Motorcyclist casualties factsheet
- Pedestrian casualties factsheet
Casualty demographics
An overview of casualties in collisions by age and sex is available in the casualty demographics chapter, with the following more detailed analysis available:
- Young and older drivers factsheet
- Road casualties and deprivation factsheet
Vehicles and drivers, including driving for work
A summary of vehicles involved in collisions is provided in the vehicles chapter. The risk behaviours and circumstances provides an overview of journey purpose of drivers involved in collisions. The estimated number of work-related collisions is available as a separate analysis:
- Work-related collisions - an initial analysis to estimate the number of casualties involving someone driving for work.
Roads and geography
Casualty numbers and rates for different road types and different levels of geography are summarised in chapters of the publication. More detailed figures by area are available via the interactive data tools.
Risk behaviours including ‘fatal four’
An overview of the main risk behaviours in collisions, including the ‘fatal four’ factors (speed, drink and drugs, mobile phone use and seatbelt non-wearing) is given in the risk behaviours and circumstances chapter. Further detailed analysis and related statistics, including prevalence of risk behaviours among drivers, includes:
- Drugs present in road fatalities an initial feasibility study exploring drugs present in motor vehicle drivers and riders killed in reported road collisions
- Self-reported drink-driving, drug-driving and mobile phone use from questions on the Crime Survey for England and Wales
- Seatbelt and driver mobile phone use surveys based on 2023 observations
Road safety factors - why collisions happen
Following the most recent STATS19 review, contributory factors (CFs) are being replaced by new road safety factors (RSFs) in police force systems. This has resulted in a break in the time series for factors-based analysis from 2024 onwards. Further details can be found in the road safety factors guidance. The factsheets below will be reviewed and updated in due course to reflect this change.
The road safety factors chapter of the publication provides an overview of why collisions happen, as far as this is available within STATS19. Further detailed analysis includes:
- Road safety factors - an initial analysis of the potential impact on the published statistics of the transition to the new road safety factors, based on 2023 data
- ‘Fatal 4’ behaviours: speed, alcohol, drugs, seatbelts and mobile devices presented using the new road safety factors classification, based on data 2023
Older factsheets archive
A number of previous road safety factsheets remain available, though do not include the most recent data and are no longer updated:
- Road user risk based on 2024 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
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Updated with 2025 statistics.
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Updated with 2024 statistics.
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Drugs feasibility study updated with 2023 data
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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.