Transport: Accidents
(asked on 22nd February 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many (a) deaths and (b) serious injuries occurred per million miles travelled on (i) roads and (ii) railways in each of the last 10 years.
The rate of deaths and serious injuries for different modes of transport, including road and railways, covering each of the last 10 years for which data are available, can be found in the table below.
Passenger casualty rates per billion passenger kilometres by mode (road, air, rail and water): Great Britain, from 2006 | ||||||||||||
Transport mode | Severity | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
Air | Killed | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Air | KSI | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 |
Rail | Killed | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
Rail | KSI | 80.2 | 85.5 | 82.8 | 91.0 | 88.0 | 87.8 | 80.4 | 80.0 | 84.7 | 136.1 | 103.4 |
Water | Killed | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 1.6 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Water | KSI | 92.6 | 43.2 | 39.6 | 47.4 | 44.9 | 43.1 | 18.4 | 67.2 | 68.5 | 53.7 | 22.7 |
Bus or coach | Killed | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
Bus or coach | KSI | 13.1 | 12.5 | 13.2 | 12.5 | 11.8 | 12.1 | 9.7 | 12.0 | 10.6 | 11.9 | 11.0 |
Car | Killed | 1.4 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.2 |
Car | KSI | 21.9 | 21.3 | 19.8 | 20.3 | 19.3 | 18.6 | 17.5 | 17.8 | 17.3 | 17.2 | 17.7 |
Van | Killed | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 |
Van | KSI | 5.9 | 6.1 | 6.1 | 6.2 | 6.0 | 5.2 | 4.9 | 5.4 | 5.1 | 4.8 | 5.5 |
Motorcycle | Killed | 71.9 | 72.9 | 72.0 | 71.3 | 76.5 | 66.3 | 73.2 | 75.0 | 72.5 | 75.8 | 70.6 |
Motorcycle | KSI | 1,495.2 | 1,593.8 | 1,520.3 | 1,587.5 | 1,522.4 | 1,475.9 | 1,394.4 | 1,380.6 | 1,316.1 | 1,276.8 | 1,268.8 |
Pedal cycle | Killed | 21.0 | 21.9 | 20.9 | 19.6 | 18.4 | 18.8 | 18.1 | 17.5 | 17.1 | 16.5 | 16.4 |
Pedal cycle | KSI | 907.7 | 885.1 | 908.9 | 898.6 | 878.5 | 839.3 | 813.4 | 797.9 | 744.5 | 524.9 | 660.7 |
Pedestrian | Killed | 23.2 | 22.2 | 20.3 | 23.3 | 20.8 | 22.0 | 22.1 | 20.9 | 22.0 | 15.0 | 16.3 |
Pedestrian | KSI | 425.9 | 437.4 | 387.3 | 405.1 | 381.0 | 349.2 | 334.1 | 332.9 | 327.6 | 204.9 | 243.5 |