Organisation: Department for Transport (DfT)
Date of Publication: September 2023
Uploaded to Knowledge Centre: 10 October 2023
This release provides the number of personal injury road traffic casualties in Great Britain that were reported by the police to the Department for Transport in 2022 using the STATS19 reporting system.
Since 1979, there has been a general downward trend in the number of people killed on roads in Great Britain with a flatter trend in the decade since 2010. In 2022, road casualties showed signs of a return to pre-pandemic trends, increasing compared to 2020 and 2021 when casualty numbers were low, largely as a result of periods of lockdown leading to a reduction in road traffic.
The headline figures for 2022 are:
- 1,711 fatalities, a decline of 2% compared to 2019
- 29,742 killed or seriously injured (KSI) casualties, a decline of 3% compared to 2019
- 135,480 casualties of all severities, a decline of 12% compared to 2019
Considering road collision rates per billion miles travelled, the final estimates show:
- 328 billion vehicle miles travelled in 2022, a return to travel levels seen in 2019 prior to the COVID-19 pandemic
- 5 road fatalities per billion vehicle miles travelled in 2022, up 2% compared to 2019
The final estimates further show:
- the road user type with the biggest estimated percentage change for 2022 compared to 2019 for fatalities was pedestrians, which showed a decline of 18%
- in 2022, 76% of fatalities and 62% of casualties of all severities were male
- in international comparisons for 2022, Great Britain ranked 5 out of 38 countries with available data for lowest number of road fatalities per million population
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