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These files provide detailed road safety data about the circumstances of personal injury road accidents in GB from 1979, the types of vehicles involved and the consequential casualties. The statistics relate only to personal injury accidents on public roads that are reported to the police, and subsequently recorded, using the STATS19 accident reporting form.

There has been an increasing demand for more up to date information on reported road accidents to be made available to the public, stakeholders and researchers. As a result, the Department for Transport made a dataset covering accidents for the first and second quarters of 2018 in Great Britain available for the first time on data.gov.uk. The data released was an un-validated subset and has been superseded by the full accident dataset for 2018, released after validation for the full year.

All the data variables are coded rather than containing textual strings. The lookup tables are available in the "Additional resources" section towards the bottom of the table.

Please note that the 2015 data were revised on the 29th September 2016. Accident, Vehicle and Casualty data for 2005 - 2009 are available in the time series files under 2014. Data for 1979 - 2004 are available as a single download under 2004 below.

Also includes: Results of breath-test screening data from recently introduced digital breath testing devices, as provided by Police Authorities in England and Wales Results of blood alcohol levels (milligrams / 100 millilitres of blood) provided by matching coroners’ data (provided by Coroners in England and Wales and by Procurators Fiscal in Scotland) with fatality data from the STATS19 police data of road accidents in Great Britain. For cases when the Blood Alcohol Levels for a fatality are "unknown" are a consequence of an unsuccessful match between the two data sets.

📄 Dataset Overview

This dataset contains detailed records of road traffic accidents across multiple districts in the UK, including areas such as Southend-on-Sea, Uttlesford, Chelmsford, Brentwood, Epping Forest, and more.

It includes approximately 300,000 rows of incidents, each capturing environmental, vehicular, and road-related conditions at the time of the accident.

This data is ideal for projects involving accident severity analysis, geospatial visualization, urban planning, and road safety research.

📊 Use Cases

• Traffic accident severity prediction
• District-level accident comparison
• Geospatial accident heatmaps
• Road condition vs. accident analysis
• Time-of-day or weather-related traffic impact studies

National Collision Database (NCDB) – a database containing all police-reported motor vehicle collisions on public roads in Canada. Selected variables (data elements) relating to fatal and injury collisions for the collisions from 1999 to the most recent available data.

Data about the vehicles involved in reported road accidents, produced by Department for Transport.

Includes:

Vehicles involved in reported road accidents (Excel data tables) Vehicles involved in accidents since 1979 Vehicles involved in accidents by type of vehicle and accident Vehicles involvement rates Drivers in accidents

This dataset captures detailed statistics about road accidents in Glasgow from 2014 to 2021. The data relate to the location, built environment and level of injury for each accident, along with numbers of casualties and vehicles involved. The statistics relate only to personal injury accidents on public roads that are reported to the police, and subsequently recorded, using the STATS19 accident reporting form. Data are released via the UK Department for Transport and can be found at the UK Government Data portal data.gov.uk.

A share of ** percent of all road accidents in Great Britain were caused by the driver or rider not looking properly. Following, other important causes of road accidents were failure to judge another person's path or speed, and careless driving. However, exceeding the speed limit was the leading factor to only ***** percent of the road accidents in Great Britain.

Malta had the lowest rate of road fatalities in the European Union in 2021. That year, 1,000 more people lost their lives on roads in the European Union, up by about five percent between 2020 and 2021.

Road Safety Statistics releases and guidance about the data collection. Collision analysis tool for bespoke breakdowns of our data. STATS19 R package developed independently of DfT, offering an alternative way to access this data for those familiar with the R language. Latest data Provisional data for the first 6 months of 2024 published 28 November 2024. These are provisional un-validated data. Data included These files provide detailed road safety data about the circumstances of personal injury road collisions in Great Britain from 1979, the types of vehicles involved and the consequential casualties. The statistics relate only to personal injury collisions on public roads that are reported to the police, and subsequently recorded, using the STATS19 collision reporting form. This data contains all the non-sensitive fields that can be made public. Sensitive data fields, for example contributory factors data, can be requested by completing the sensitive data form and contacting the road safety statistics team at roadacc.stats@dft.gov.uk All the data variables are coded rather than containing textual strings. The lookup tables are available in the supporting documents section towards the bottom of the table. Data relating to the casualty and collision severity adjustment to account for changes in police reporting of severity is provided in separate files and can be joined using the appropriate record identifiers. Timing of data release Final annual data is released annually in late September following the publication of the annual reported road casualties Great Britain statistical publication. Individual years data is available for each of the last 5 years, with earlier years available as part of a single download. In addition, un-validated provisional mid-year data (covering January to June) is released at end November, to provide more up to date information Data revisions Except for the severity adjustments, data are not routinely revised those occasionally minor amendments to previous years can be made. Details of recent revisions are available, together with a request for any feedback on the approach to revising the data. The files published here represent the latest data.

Overall numbers of persons killed or seriously injured in road accidents with breakdowns by road user type and for children and the elderly

Source: Department for Transport (DfT), Statistics Roads Division (SR)

Publisher: Neighbourhood Statistics

Geographies: Local Authority District (LAD), Government Office Region (GOR), National

Geographic coverage: England and Wales

Time coverage: 1999 to 2003

Type of data: Administrative data

Looking at the number of vehicles involved in reported road accidents in Great Britain in 2020, some ****** cars were involved in accidents while commuting, while ***** accidents were recorded for cars taking pupils to school.

Fatal accidents and casualties were significantly more expensive than either serious or slight accidents in the United Kingdom in 2020. That year, on average, a fatal accident resulted in over almost ********* British pounds of prevention costs. The cost of slight accidents was substantially lower, but not insignificant, reaching some ****** Great British pounds. Driver’s error most common factorThe most common cause for any type of accident was a driver’s reaction error, with incidents caused by actions such as sudden braking or swerving, where a police officer had to attend a scene. Of these, a driver or rider failing to look properly was the most frequent cause of an accident. Road accident total costs increase in 2018Total prevention costs from reported road accidents amounted to **** billion British pounds in 2018. Between 2010 and 2018, figures had grown by approximately * percent, while the lowest figure had been recorded in 2013. The number of car drivers involved in road accidents in Great Britain is on the decline.

Context

UK police forces collect data on every vehicle collision in the uk on a form called Stats19. Data from this form ends up at the DfT and is published at https://data.gov.uk/dataset/road-accidents-safety-data

Content

There are 3 CSVs in this set. Accidents is the primary one and has references by Accident_Index to the casualties and vehicles tables. This might be better done as a database.

Inspiration

Questions to ask of this data -

• combined with population data, how do different areas compare?
• what trends are there for accidents involving different road users eg motorcycles, peds, cyclists
• are road safety campaigns effective?
• likelihood of accidents for different groups / vehicles
• many more..

Manifest

dft05-15.tgz - tar of Accidents0515.csv, Casualties0515.csv and Vehicles0515.csv tidydata.sh - script to get and tidy data.

Information on all road accident casualties across Calderdale. Data includes location, number of people and vehicles involved, road surface, weather conditions and severity of any casualties. Please note the Eastings and Northings are generated at the roadside where the accident occurred. Sometimes due to poor internet connectivity this data is may not be as accurate as it could be. If you notice any errors please contact accident.studies@leeds.gov.uk. The road casualty pdf reports refer to casualties who were killed or seriously injured, whereas the accident data refers to all road casualties. There is no road casualty pdf report for 2021.

This is the number of people of all ages killed or seriously injured (KSI) in road traffic accidents, in an area, adjusted. This indicator includes only casualties who are fatally or seriously injured and these categories are defined as follows:

Fatal casualties are those who sustained injuries which caused death less than 30 days after the accident; confirmed suicides are excluded.

Seriously injured casualties are those who sustained an injury for which they are detained in hospital as an in-patient, or any of the following injuries, whether or not they are admitted to hospital: fractures, concussion, internal injuries, crushings, burns (excluding friction burns), severe cuts and lacerations, severe general shock requiring medical treatment and injuries causing death 30 or more days after the accident.

An injured casualty is recorded as seriously or slightly injured by the police on the basis of information available within a short time of the collision. This generally will not reflect the results of a medical examination, but may be influenced according to whether the casualty is hospitalised or not. Hospitalisation procedures will vary regionally.

Slight injuries are excluded from the total, such as a sprain (including neck whiplash injury), bruise or cut which are not judged to be severe, or slight shock requiring roadside attention.

Police forces use one of two systems for recording reported road traffic collisions; the CRaSH (Collision Recording and Sharing) or COPA (Case Overview Preparation Application). Estimates are calculated from figures which are as reported by police. Since 2016, changes in severity reporting systems for a large number of police forces mean that serious injury figures, and to a lesser extent slight injuries, are not comparable with earlier years. As a result, both adjusted and unadjusted killed or seriously injured statistics are available. Further information about the reporting systems can be found here.

Areas with low resident populations but have high inflows of people or traffic may have artificially high rates because the at-risk resident population is not an accurate measure of exposure to transport. This is likely to affect the results for employment centres e.g. City of London and sparsely populated rural areas which have high numbers of visitors or through traffic. Counts for Heathrow Airport are included in the London Region and England totals only.

From the publication of the 2023 statistics onwards, casualty rates shown in table RAS0403 to include rates based on motor vehicle traffic only. This is because the department does not consider pedal cycle traffic to be robust at the local authority level.

Data is Powered by LG Inform Plus and automatically checked for new data on the 3rd of each month.

Full standard STATS19 fields data on reported road accidents in Greater Manchester. Please bear in mind that our STATS19 data (police data on road accidents is in a standardised national format) is a relational database, it consists of accident, vehicle and casualty records. The underlying structure of the data is essentially hierarchical. For each accident there is a single accident record, followed by a variable number of vehicle records and a variable number of casualty records. Casualty records are linked to vehicle records either because the vehicle struck the casualty or because the casualty was a driver or a passenger in a vehicle. In Greater Manchester, different councils have different viewpoints on which terminology should be used. However, it has been decided that at a Greater Manchester level, the term road accident should be used. This is the term that most members of the public would use and is also the one used by the Department for Transport on the national form used for the collection of the data. This data will be refreshed annually. A key to the codes used in the data can be found in the STATS19 road accident injury statistics - report form which is provided in the supporting information below. Please acknowledge the source of this information using the following attribution statement: Contains Transport for Greater Manchester data. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024.