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• Motorcyclists:Overall casualty trends, fatalities or serious injuries 2024– finalsee datathe overall casualties by severity

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• Pedestrians:Road safety strategy targets and indicators monitoring 2024– finalsee datathe Safety Performance Indicators

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• Older and younger drivers:people 2024– finalsee datathe casualty demographics

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• Road user risk

  by mode of travel – see the road user type chapter, vehicles involved in collisions chapter and the vulnerable road user factsheets

• RoadVulnerable road users - pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists or e-scooters - see the road user risk:type chapter and the vulnerable road user factsheets
• Regional, local authority or international comparisons 2024– finalsee datathe geography and place

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• e-scooter safetycasualties factors:factsheet based on STATS19 data, and an initialad-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 potentialcasualty impactdemographics onchapter, with the publishedfollowing statisticsmore 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 transitionvehicles 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 newnumber of casualties involving someone driving for work.

Roads and geography

Casualty numbers and rates for different road safetytypes factors.and different levels of geography are summarised in chapters of the publication. More detailed figures by area are available via the interactive data tools.

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Risk collisions:behaviours analysisincluding ‘fatal four’

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• Drugs present in road fatalities. Anan initial feasibility study exploring drugs present in motor vehicle drivers and riders killed in reported road collisions, updated with data to 2023.

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• Self-reported driverdrink-driving, behaviourdrug-driving (drink and drug driving, and driver mobile phone use)use from questions on the Crime Survey for England and Wales.

• Seatbelt and driver mobile phone use surveys based on observational2023 surveysobservations

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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