Road Safety Data

Published by:
Department for Transport
Last updated:
28 January 2021
Topic:
Transport
Licence:
Open Government Licence

Summary

Road Safety Statistics releases

Data download tool for bespoke breakdowns of our data.

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 The data released was an un-validated subset and has been superseded by the full accident dataset for 2018, released after validation for the full year.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

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Road Safety Data Mid Year Provisional Estimates 2020 .CSV 28 January 2021 Not available
Accident-and-Casualty-Adjustment-2004-to-2019 ZIP 30 September 2020 Not available
Road Safety Data - Casualties 2019 CSV / ZIP 30 September 2020 Not available
Road Safety data - Vehicles 2019 CSV/ZIP 30 September 2020 Not available
Road Safety Data - Accidents 2019 CSV / ZIP 30 September 2020 Not available
Road Safety Data - Vehicles 2018 CSV 26 September 2019 Preview
Road Safety Data - Casualties 2018 CSV 26 September 2019 Preview
Road Safety Data - Accidents 2018 CSV 26 September 2019 Preview
Road Safety Data - Accidents 2017 ZIP 12 October 2018 Not available
Road Safety Data - Casualties 2017 ZIP 12 October 2018 Not available
Road Safety data -Vehicles 2017 ZIP 12 October 2018 Not available
Road Safety Data - Accidents 2016 ZIP/CSV 29 September 2017 Not available
Road Safety data -Vehicles 2016 ZIP/CSV 29 September 2017 Not available
Road Safety Data - Casualties 2016 ZIP/CSV 29 September 2017 Not available
Road Safety Casualty Dashboard (2011-2015) ZIP / XLSM 10 November 2016 Not available
Road Safety - all 2015 data ZIP / CSV 30 June 2016 Not available
Road Safety - Casualties 2015 ZIP / CSV 30 June 2016 Not available
Road Safety - Accidents 2015 ZIP / CSV 30 June 2016 Not available
Road Safety - Vehicles 2015 ZIP / CSV 30 June 2016 Not available
Road Safety - Casualties 2009 CSV 11 February 2016 Preview
Road Safety - Vehicles 2009 CSV 11 February 2016 Preview
Road Safety - Accidents 2009 CSV 11 February 2016 Preview
Road Safety - Accidents 2010 CSV 11 February 2016 Preview
Road Safety - Accidents 2011 CSV 11 February 2016 Preview
Road Safety - Vehicles 2011 CSV 11 February 2016 Preview
Road Safety - Vehicles 2010 CSV 11 February 2016 Preview
Road Safety - Casualties 2011 CSV 11 February 2016 Preview
Road Safety - Casualties 2010 CSV 11 February 2016 Preview
Road Safety - Blood Alcohol Content - Coroners Matched Data 2012 CSV 22 October 2015 Preview
Road Safety - Blood Alcohol Content - Coroners Matched Data 2013 CSV 22 October 2015 Preview
Road Safety - digital Breath Test Data 2014 CSV / ZIP 22 October 2015 Not available
All STATS19 data (accident, casualties and vehicle tables) for 1979 to 2004 ZIP 05 October 2015 Not available
Road Safety - Blood Alcohol Content - Coroners Matched Data 2009 ZIP 05 October 2015 Not available
Road Safety - digital Breath Test Data 2009 ZIP 05 October 2015 Not available
Road Safety - digital Breath Test Data 2010 ZIP 05 October 2015 Not available
Road Safety - Blood Alcohol Content - Coroners Matched Data 2010 ZIP 05 October 2015 Not available
Road Safety - digital Breath Test Data 2011 ZIP 05 October 2015 Not available
Road Safety - Blood Alcohol Content - Coroners Matched Data 2011 ZIP 05 October 2015 Not available
Road Safety - digital Breath Test Data 2012 ZIP 05 October 2015 Not available
Road Safety - Casualties 2012 ZIP 05 October 2015 Not available
Road Safety - Vehicles 2012 ZIP 05 October 2015 Not available
Road Safety - Accidents 2012 ZIP 05 October 2015 Not available
Road Safety - Accidents 2013 ZIP 05 October 2015 Not available
Road Safety - Casualties 2013 ZIP 05 October 2015 Not available
Road Safety - digital Breath Test Data 2013 ZIP 05 October 2015 Not available
Road Safety - Vehicles 2013 ZIP 05 October 2015 Not available
All STATS19 data (accident, casualties and vehicle tables) for 2005 to 2014 ZIP 05 October 2015 Not available
Road Safety - Casualties 2014 ZIP 05 October 2015 Not available
Road Safety - Vehicles 2014 ZIP 05 October 2015 Not available
Road Safety - Accidents 2014 CSV 05 October 2015 Preview

Supporting documents

Link to the document Format Date added
STATS19 Variable lookup data guide XLS 05 October 2015
Brief guide to road accidents and safety data DOC 05 October 2015
Published statistics and supporting documents HTML 05 October 2015
Road Safety - Digital Breath Test Data Guide XLS 05 October 2015

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