Roads: Accidents

(asked on 1st April 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask His Majesty's Government what is the most recent figure for the number of people killed annually in road traffic accidents in England per million of the resident population; and how this compares with the rate of deaths in road traffic accidents in each of the other parts of the United Kingdom.


Answered by
Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill Portrait
Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill
Minister of State (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 10th April 2025

Data on road injury collisions are reported by police using the STATS19 system. In STATS19, a fatality is defined as a death that occurred within 30 days of the collision. The rates of fatalities in road collisions in 2023 per million population for different parts of the United Kingdom are shown in the table below.

Region

Fatality rate per million population (2023)

United Kingdom

24.8

Great Britain

24.5

England

23.7

Wales

31.9

Scotland

27.9

Northern Ireland

37.0

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