Road accident and safety statistics: factsheets
topic summaries and ad-hoc reports
Road safety factsheets relating to specific road user groups and any one-off or ad-hoc statistics
- From:
- Department for Transport
- Published
- 30 September 2021
- Last updated
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2631SeptemberJuly20242025 — See all updates
This page iscontains updated as new factsheets are available. We welcome suggestions for topics of interest by email to roadacc.stats@dft.gov.uk.
Factsheets based on STATS19road casualty data
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Vulnerable road users
e-scooters: latest final data for 2023, and previous 2022, 2021 and 2020 data.
Pedal cyclists: latest 2023 final data and previous 2022, 2021 and 2020 data.
Motorcyclists: latest 2023 final data and previous 2022, 2021 and 2020 data.
Pedestrians: latest 2023 final data and previous 2022 and 2021 data.
Demographics
Older and younger drivers: latest 2023 final data and previous 2022 and 2021 data.
Deprivation and road casualties: latest 2023 final data
FactsheetsRoad user risk
Road user risk: latest 2023 final data and publicationsprevious 2022 and 2021 data.
Factors contributing to collisions
Road safety factors: an initial analysis of otherthe potential impact on the published statistics of the transition to the new road safety datafactors.
Fatal collisions: analysis of the ‘fatal 4’ factors (speed, alcohol and drugs, seatbelt non-wearing and mobile device use) presented using the new road safety factors classification.
Driver behaviours (drink, drugs, seatbelts, mobile phone use)
Developing drug-driving statistics for road fatalities. An initial feasibility study exploring drugs present in motor vehicle drivers and riders killed in reported road collisions, updated with data to 2023.
Self-reported driver behaviour (drink and drug driving, and driver mobile phone use) from questions on the Crime Survey for England and Wales.
Seatbelt and driver mobile phone use based on observational surveys in 2023.
Injury severity and collision outcomes
Injury severity and type of injury: 2019 to 2023 data with injury-based reporting systems
Analysis of hospital data on road casualties including serious e-scooter casualties, and initial feasibility studies linking STATS19 and trauma data
Fire service data on road casualties, a feasibility study linking data to STATS19.
Older factsheets
A number of previous road safety factsheets remain available, though do not include the most recent 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
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Update history
2025-09-25 09:30
Updated with 2024 statistics.
2025-07-31 09:30
Drugs feasibility study updated with 2023 data
2024-09-26 09:30
Updated with 2023 statistics.
2024-05-30 09:30
E-scooter factsheet with provisional 2023 data and road safety factors initial analysis added.
2023-11-29 09:30
E-scooter factsheet for year ending June 2023 added.
2023-05-24 09:30
2022 provisional e-scooter factsheet published
2022-11-24 09:30
2022 e-scooter factsheet and 2021 deprivation factsheet added
2022-09-29 09:30
2021 factsheets added.
2022-05-25 09:30
Added URL to new e-scooter and older driver factsheets.
2022-02-23 09:30
Added a link to new factsheet on injury-based reporting.