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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 The data released was an un-validated subset and has been superseded by the full accident dataset for 2018, released after validation for the full year.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.

Detailed data about personal injury accidents on public roads in York that are reported to the police and subsequently recorded, using the STATS19 accident reporting form, from 2005 onwards.

The Accident_Index attribute gives a unique index for each accident and links to Vehicle and Casualty data. Casualties are linked to vehicles by the “VEHREF” attribute.

The Longitude and Latitude data is based on WGS 1984.

The key for all of the coded values of the data is provided within the "Road Safety Key" resource.

For more information such as casualties, details on vehicles or breath-test or blood alcohol content, please visit Road Safety data for GB

Data extracted from publication by Department for Transport, licensed under Open Government License

In 2023, Poland observed an overall improvement in the accidents, deaths, and casualties in road safety compared to the previous year. However, collisions had increased by around *** percent.

The number of road accidents per one million inhabitants in the United States was forecast to continuously decrease between 2024 and 2029 by in total 2,490.4 accidents (-14.99 percent). After the eighth consecutive decreasing year, the number is estimated to reach 14,118.78 accidents and therefore a new minimum in 2029. Depicted here are the estimated number of accidents which occured in relation to road traffic. They are set in relation to the population size and depicted as accidents per one million inhabitants.The shown data are an excerpt of Statista's Key Market Indicators (KMI). The KMI are a collection of primary and secondary indicators on the macro-economic, demographic and technological environment in up to 150 countries and regions worldwide. All indicators are sourced from international and national statistical offices, trade associations and the trade press and they are processed to generate comparable data sets (see supplementary notes under details for more information).Find more key insights for the number of road accidents per one million inhabitants in countries like Mexico and Canada.

Overview:

Information on location and characteristics of crashes in Queensland for all reported Road Traffic Crashes occurred from 1 January 2001 to 30 June 2024.

Fatal, Hospitalisation, Medical treatment and Minor injury:

This dataset contains information on crashes reported to the police which resulted from the movement of at least 1 road vehicle on a road or road related area. Crashes listed in this resource have occurred on a public road and meet one of the following criteria:

• a person is killed or injured, or
• at least 1 vehicle was towed away, or
• the value of the property damage meets the appropriate criteria listed below.

Property damage:

1. $2500 or more damage to property other than vehicles (after 1 December 1999)
2. $2500 or more damage to vehicle and/or other property (after 1 December 1991 and before 1 December 1999)
3. value of property damage is greater than $1000 (before December 1991).

Please note:

• This data has been extracted from the Queensland Road Crash Database.
• Information held in the Road Crash Database on events occurring within the last 12 months is considered preliminary as investigations into crashes can take up to 1 year to finalise.
• Property damage only crashes ceased to be reported/recorded by Queensland Police Service after 31 December 2010.
• These crash location coordinates reference the current Australian geodetic datum is GDA2020 (previously it was GDA94).

Looking at the number of vehicles involved in reported road accidents in Great Britain in 2020, some 11,208 cars were involved in accidents while commuting, while 1,520 accidents were recorded for cars taking pupils to school.

This data has been consolidated from Victoria Police reports and Hospital injury information, then validated and enriched to provide a comprehensive and detailed view of road crashes and injuries across Victoria. The data provides users with information about Victorian fatal and injury road crash data based on time, location, conditions, crash type, road user type, and other relevant attributes. Data Currency This information will be updated on a monthly basis but with a 7 month lag in order to provide a comprehensive view of incidents during that time period. Data Structure The CSV data is split across multiple tables with attributes to facilitate joins between the information. This has been captured as part of the supporting documentation in the metadata. The tables and attributes include: - accident (basic accident details, time, severity, location) - person (person based details, age, gender etc) - vehicle (vehicle based data, vehicle type, make etc) - accident_event (sequence of events e.g. left road, rollover, caught fire) - road_surface_cond (whether road was wet, dry, icy etc) - atmospheric_cond (rain, winds etc) - sub_dca (detailed codes describing accident) - accident_node (master location table - NB subset of accident table) - Node Table with Lat/Long references There is also a lite Victoria Road Crash .csv dataset is a single flat file containing a subset of the attributes from the other CSV files. It provides a single set of attributes for each road crash that has occurred within Victoria. Supporting documentation in the metadata will provide further details of the attributes. This used to be a .GeoJSON file however due to feedback from a significant number of Open Data users, this was changed to a .csv file. Disclaimer No claim is made as to the accuracy or currency of the content on this site at any time, there will be instances where attributes relating to a crash are amended over time. This data is provided on the basis that users undertake responsibility for assessing the relevance and accuracy of its content. Data relating to fatal crashes that have occurred recently are provisional and are subject to change or removal. They will have a high level of incompleteness and details will be amended before they are finalised. The Victorian Government and Department of Transport and Planning accept no liability to any person or group for the data or advice (or the use of such data or advice) which is provided or incorporated into it by reference.

The traffic accident and casualties statistics tabulated in this dataset are compiled and retrieved from the Transport Information System developed and enhanced by the Road Safety and Standards Division. The accidents included are those personal injury accidents reported to the Police and do not include damage-only 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.

The number of road traffic fatalities per one million inhabitants in the United States was forecast to continuously increase between 2024 and 2029 by in total 18.5 deaths (+13.81 percent). After the tenth consecutive increasing year, the number is estimated to reach 152.46 deaths and therefore a new peak in 2029. Depicted here are the estimated number of deaths which occured in relation to road traffic. They are set in relation to the population size and depicted as deaths per 100,000 inhabitants.The shown data are an excerpt of Statista's Key Market Indicators (KMI). The KMI are a collection of primary and secondary indicators on the macro-economic, demographic and technological environment in up to 150 countries and regions worldwide. All indicators are sourced from international and national statistical offices, trade associations and the trade press and they are processed to generate comparable data sets (see supplementary notes under details for more information).Find more key insights for the number of road traffic fatalities per one million inhabitants in countries like Mexico and Canada.

This database that can be used for macro-level analysis of road accidents on interurban roads in Europe. Through the variables it contains, road accidents can be explained using variables related to economic resources invested in roads, traffic, road network, socioeconomic characteristics, legislative measures and meteorology. This repository contains the data used for the analysis carried out in the papers: 1. Calvo-Poyo F., Navarro-Moreno J., de Oña J. (2020) Road Investment and Traffic Safety: An International Study. Sustainability 12:6332. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12166332 2. Navarro-Moreno J., Calvo-Poyo F., de Oña J. (2022) Influence of road investment and maintenance expenses on injured traffic crashes in European roads. Int J Sustain Transp 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/15568318.2022.2082344 3. Navarro-Moreno, J., Calvo-Poyo, F., de Oña, J. (2022) Investment in roads and traffic safety: linked to economic development? A European comparison. Environ. Sci. Pollut. Res. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-22567 The file with the database is available in excel. DATA SOURCES The database presents data from 1998 up to 2016 from 20 european countries: Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom. Crash data were obtained from the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) [2], which offers enough level of disaggregation between crashes occurring inside versus outside built-up areas. With reference to the data on economic resources invested in roadways, deserving mention –given its extensive coverage—is the database of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), managed by the International Transport Forum (ITF) [1], which collects data on investment in the construction of roads and expenditure on their maintenance, following the definitions of the United Nations System of National Accounts (2008 SNA). Despite some data gaps, the time series present consistency from one country to the next. Moreover, to confirm the consistency and complete missing data, diverse additional sources, mainly the national Transport Ministries of the respective countries were consulted. All the monetary values were converted to constant prices in 2015 using the OECD price index. To obtain the rest of the variables in the database, as well as to ensure consistency in the time series and complete missing data, the following national and international sources were consulted: Eurostat [3] Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE). European Union [4] The World Bank [5] World Health Organization (WHO) [6] European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) [7] European Road Safety Observatory (ERSO) [8] European Climatic Energy Mixes (ECEM) of the Copernicus Climate Change [9] EU BestPoint-Project [10] Ministerstvo dopravy, República Checa [11] Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur, Alemania [12] Ministerie van Infrastructuur en Waterstaat, Países Bajos [13] National Statistics Office, Malta [14] Ministério da Economia e Transição Digital, Portugal [15] Ministerio de Fomento, España [16] Trafikverket, Suecia [17] Ministère de l’environnement de l’énergie et de la mer, Francia [18] Ministero delle Infrastrutture e dei Trasporti, Italia [19–25] Statistisk sentralbyrå, Noruega [26-29] Instituto Nacional de Estatística, Portugal [30] Infraestruturas de Portugal S.A., Portugal [31–35] Road Safety Authority (RSA), Ireland [36] DATA BASE DESCRIPTION The database was made trying to combine the longest possible time period with the maximum number of countries with complete dataset (some countries like Lithuania, Luxemburg, Malta and Norway were eliminated from the definitive dataset owing to a lack of data or breaks in the time series of records). Taking into account the above, the definitive database is made up of 19 variables, and contains data from 20 countries during the period between 1998 and 2016. Table 1 shows the coding of the variables, as well as their definition and unit of measure. Table. Database metadata Code Variable and unit fatal_pc_km Fatalities per billion passenger-km fatal_mIn Fatalities per million inhabitants accid_adj_pc_km Accidents per billion passenger-km p_km Billions of passenger-km croad_inv_km Investment in roads construction per kilometer, €/km (2015 constant prices) croad_maint_km Expenditure on roads maintenance per kilometer €/km (2015 constant prices) prop_motorwa Proportion of motorways over the total road network (%) populat Population, in millions of inhabitants unemploy Unemployment rate (%) petro_car Consumption of gasolina and petrol derivatives (tons), per tourism alcohol Alcohol consumption, in liters per capita (age > 15) mot_index Motorization index, in cars per 1,000 inhabitants den_populat Population density, inhabitants/km² cgdp Gross Domestic Product (GDP), in € (2015 constant prices) cgdp_cap GDP per capita, in € (2015 constant prices) precipit Average depth of rain water during a year (mm) prop_elder Proportion of people over 65 years (%) dps Demerit Point System, dummy variable (0: no; 1: yes) freight Freight transport, in billions of ton-km ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This database was carried out in the framework of the project “Inversión en carreteras y seguridad vial: un análisis internacional (INCASE)”, financed by: FEDER/Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades–Agencia Estatal de Investigación/Proyecto RTI2018-101770-B-I00, within Spain´s National Program of R+D+i Oriented to Societal Challenges. Moreover, the authors would like to express their gratitude to the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda of Spain (MITMA), and the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure of Germany (BMVI) for providing data for this study. REFERENCES 1. International Transport Forum OECD iLibrary | Transport infrastructure investment and maintenance. 2. United Nations Economic Commission for Europe UNECE Statistical Database Available online: https://w3.unece.org/PXWeb2015/pxweb/en/STAT/STAT_40-TRTRANS/?rxid=18ad5d0d-bd5e-476f-ab7c-40545e802eeb (accessed on Apr 28, 2020). 3. European Commission Database - Eurostat Available online: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/data/database (accessed on Apr 28, 2021). 4. Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport. European Commission EU Transport in figures - Statistical Pocketbooks Available online: https://ec.europa.eu/transport/facts-fundings/statistics_en (accessed on Apr 28, 2021). 5. World Bank Group World Bank Open Data | Data Available online: https://data.worldbank.org/ (accessed on Apr 30, 2021). 6. World Health Organization (WHO) WHO Global Information System on Alcohol and Health Available online: https://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.main.GISAH?lang=en (accessed on Apr 29, 2021). 7. European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) Traffic Law Enforcement across the EU - Tackling the Three Main Killers on Europe’s Roads; Brussels, Belgium, 2011; 8. Copernicus Climate Change Service Climate data for the European energy sector from 1979 to 2016 derived from ERA-Interim Available online: https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/sis-european-energy-sector?tab=overview (accessed on Apr 29, 2021). 9. Klipp, S.; Eichel, K.; Billard, A.; Chalika, E.; Loranc, M.D.; Farrugia, B.; Jost, G.; Møller, M.; Munnelly, M.; Kallberg, V.P.; et al. European Demerit Point Systems : Overview of their main features and expert opinions. EU BestPoint-Project 2011, 1–237. 10. 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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 2,000,000 British pounds of prevention costs. The cost of slight accidents was substantially lower, but not insignificant, reaching some 16,700 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 16.5 billion British pounds in 2018. Between 2010 and 2018, figures had grown by approximately 9 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.

Road accident statistics are collected from information about personal injury road accidents and their consequent casualties, to a common national standard. The aim of collecting and publishing national road accident statistics is to inform public debate and to provide the basis for determining and monitoring effective road safety policies to reduce the road accident casualty toll. They are an essential requirement for monitoring targeted reductions in road accident casualties. The credible monitoring of targeted reductions requires that data are reported consistently and accurately, and both national and local government, and local reporting police forces, work closely to achieve a common reporting standard.

Users should note that for 1985-1991, and from 2002 onwards, the Vehicle Record file does not contain breath test data. This change has been made in order to protect confidentiality.

Data for 1985-1990 were deposited at the Archive at the beginning of 2006. Prior to this, the Archive only held the Road Accident Data series from 1991 onwards. No extra documentation was available for the 1985-1990 data, so users are advised to consult the documentation for the 1991 survey.

Further information about the Road Accident Data series and research based on it may be found on the government road accidents and safety statistics webpages.

These studies comprise information gathered using STATS19 and STATS20 forms.

A share of 38 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 seven percent of the road accidents in Great Britain.

Road accident statistics are collected from information about personal injury road accidents and their consequent casualties, to a common national standard. The aim of collecting and publishing national road accident statistics is to inform public debate and to provide the basis for determining and monitoring effective road safety policies to reduce the road accident casualty toll. They are an essential requirement for monitoring targeted reductions in road accident casualties. The credible monitoring of targeted reductions requires that data are reported consistently and accurately, and both national and local government, and local reporting police forces, work closely to achieve a common reporting standard.

Users should note that for 1985-1991, and from 2002 onwards, the Vehicle Record file does not contain breath test data. This change has been made in order to protect confidentiality.

Data for 1985-1990 were deposited at the Archive at the beginning of 2006. Prior to this, the Archive only held the Road Accident Data series from 1991 onwards. No extra documentation was available for the 1985-1990 data, so users are advised to consult the documentation for the 1991 survey.

Further information about the Road Accident Data series and research based on it may be found on the government road accidents and safety statistics webpages.

These studies comprise information gathered using STATS19 and STATS20 forms.