Organisation: Department for Transport
Date of Publication: May 2023
Uploaded to Knowledge Centre: 24 May 2023
Provisional estimates show there were 1,695 road deaths in Great Britain during 2022, a year-on-year rise of 9%.
The DfT says the number of casualties has begun to normalise after the Covid-impacted years of 2020 and 2021.
In comparison to 2019, the last year unaffected by the pandemic, the 2022 fatality figure is down 3%.
As has been widely reported, over the last few years casualty statistics have been heavily impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, with lockdown periods leading to a reduction in traffic on the roads.
As such, it is perhaps no surprise that 2022 saw an increase in fatalities, KSIs and the total number of casualties.
At 29,795, the number of KSIs rose by 9%, while the overall casualty figure increased by 6% to 136,002.
Both of the 2022 figures are however lower than 2019 – KSIs are down by 3% and casualties of all severities by 11%.
In 2022, 75% of fatalities and 62% of casualties of all severities were male.
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