Road collisions and accidents

Reporting road traffic incidents, making personal injury claims and road casualty statistics.

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Services

• Road Traffic Accident Small Claims – Quantum

  Claim under the Pre-Action Protocol for Personal Injury Claims below the Small Claims Limit in Road Traffic Accidents

• Road Traffic Accident Small Claims – Liability

  Acknowledgment of Service - Claim under the Pre-Action Protocol for Personal Injury Claims below the Small Claims Limit in Road Traffic Accidents

• Road Traffic Accident Small Claims – Other

  Claim under the Pre-Action Protocol for Personal Injury Claims below the Small Claims Limit in Road Traffic Accidents

• Road Traffic Accident Small Claims – Directions

  Acknowledgment of Service - Claim under the Pre-Action Protocol for Personal Injury Claims below the Small Claims Limit in Road Traffic Accidents

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Guidance and regulation

• Road safety statistics: interactive data tools
  • Guidance
  • 26 September 2024
  • Department for Transport
• Report an incident involving your organisation's bus or coach
  • Detailed guide
  • 6 April 2021
  • Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
• Report an incident if you're a DVSA earned recognition operator
  • Detailed guide
  • 14 May 2021
  • Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
• Road safety statistics: topic summaries and ad-hoc reports
  • Detailed guide
  • 25 September 2025
  • Department for Transport
• Guide to contributory factors (and road safety factors) for reported road casualty statistics
  • Guidance
  • 25 September 2025
  • Department for Transport

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News and communications

• Road Safety Investigation Branch launches
  • 29 June 2022
  • Department for Transport
  • Written statement
• Government launches country’s first ever investigation branch focused on road safety
  • 29 June 2022
  • Department for Transport
  • News story
• Highway Code changes set to take effect this weekend
  • 26 January 2022
  • Department for Transport and Active Travel England
  • News story
• Government launches consultation on Road Collision Investigation Branch
  • 28 October 2021
  • Department for Transport
  • News story
• Highways England statement following publication of DfT’s Reported road casualties in Great Britain: 2018 report
  • 26 September 2019
  • Highways England
  • Press release

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Research and statistics

• Police recorded injury road traffic collisions and casualties Northern Ireland monthly report to 30 November 2025
  • 29 January 2026
  • Police Service of Northern Ireland and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
  • National statistics
• Motoring offences statistics in Northern Ireland to 31 October 2025
  • 29 January 2026
  • Police Service of Northern Ireland and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
  • National statistics
• Police recorded injury road traffic collisions and casualties Northern Ireland monthly report to 31 October 2025
  • 19 December 2025
  • Police Service of Northern Ireland and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
  • National statistics
• Police recorded injury road traffic collisions and casualties Northern Ireland monthly report to 30 September 2025
  • 28 November 2025
  • Police Service of Northern Ireland and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
  • National statistics
• Support for victims of road traffic collisions
  • 27 November 2025
  • Department for Transport
  • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

• Section 5A drug-driving: revised FSA specific requirements
  • 20 September 2024
  • Forensic Science Regulator
  • Closed consultation
  • Date closed 11 October 2024
• Creating a Road Collision Investigation Branch (RCIB)
  • 29 June 2022
  • Department for Transport
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 09 December 2021
• New ways to report road accidents to the police
  • 30 January 2018
  • Department for Transport
  • Closed consultation
  • Date closed 24 April 2018
• Roads policing review: future methods to improve safety and reduce casualties
  • 13 July 2020
  • Department for Transport
  • Call for evidence outcome
• Road safety statement 2019: a lifetime of road safety
  • 19 July 2019
  • Department for Transport, Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency, Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, and Highways England
  • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• National Highways: reported road casualties on the strategic road network (SRN)
  • 24 August 2022
  • National Highways
  • Corporate report
• Highways England: reported road casualties on the strategic road network (SRN)
  • 31 August 2021
  • Highways England
  • Corporate report
• A120 Eastbound inspection records
  • 11 February 2021
  • Highways England
  • Foi release
• Fatalities on unlit roads compared to lit roads
  • 12 November 2020
  • Highways England
  • Foi release
• A63 road traffic collision statistics
  • 3 April 2020
  • Highways England
  • Foi release

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Organisations

• Department
  for Transport
• Driver & Vehicle
  Standards
  Agency
• HM Courts &
  Tribunals Service
• Driver & Vehicle
  Licensing
  Agency

• Forensic Science Regulator