Guidance and regulation

Road safety factsheets relating to specific road user groups and any one-off or ad-hoc statistics

• From: Department for Transport
• Updated: 29 November 2023

Tell the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) about collisions or incidents involving your vehicles if you've joined the DVSA earned recognition scheme.

• From: Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
• Updated: 14 May 2021

You must report any incident involving your organisation's public service vehicles (PSVs) if there are fatalities, serious injuries, or serious damage.

• From: Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
• Updated: 6 April 2021

This document outlines the changes to severity recording in some police forces from 2016 and method used to adjust for this in the reported road casualty statistics.

• From: Department for Transport
• Updated: 28 September 2023

A guide to use of the contributory factors data which form part of the Department for Transport's reported road casualty statistics.

• From: Department for Transport
• Updated: 28 September 2023

Post holders given access to road accident and safety statistics up to 24 hours prior to release.

• From: Department for Transport
• Updated: 28 September 2023

Notes and definitions for the Department for Transport's reported road casualty statistics

• From: Department for Transport
• Updated: 29 September 2022

Information relating to the quality of the Department for Transport's statistics on road casualties reported by police forces in Great Britain

• From: Department for Transport
• Updated: 28 September 2023

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

• From: Department for Transport
• Updated: 30 September 2021

A brief overview of the Department for Transport's statistics on road collisions and casualties including areas covered and sources of further information

• From: Department for Transport
• Updated: 28 September 2023

Survey, hospital and compensation claims data related to road accidents and casualties

• From: Department for Transport
• Updated: 30 September 2021

A note summarising the approach used to producing provisional estimates of road casualties in Great Britain

• From: Department for Transport
• Updated: 25 November 2021