New Casualty Stats Published

2004 Deaths down by 8 per cent

By PH Staff / Thursday, 29 September 2005 / Loading comments

The Office for National Statistics has released figures for 2004 detailing the number of people killed and injured on the UK's roads.

3,221 people were killed on Britain's roads in 2004, 8 percent less than in 2003.
The number of people seriously injured fell to 31,130, also 8 percent lower than in 2003.
Total casualties in 2004 were 280,840, 3 percent fewer than in 2003;
5 fewer children were killed on the roads in 2004 than in 2003, a fall of 3 percent. The total number of children killed or seriously injured fell by 5 percent;
Provisional estimates indicate that the number of deaths in accidents involving drink driving was 2 percent higher than in 2003.
Pedestrian casualties fell by 4 percent between 2003 and 2004 and the number of killed or seriously injured pedestrians was down 6 percent.
12 percent of all road accident casualties and 21 percent of those who died in road accidents were pedestrians;
In 2004, the number of casualties among users of two wheeled motor vehicles fell by 10 percent compared with 2003 and the number of deaths fell by 16 percent to 585. Serious injuries fell by 13 percent.
Pedal cyclist casualties fell 2 percent. The number of cyclists killed or seriously injured fell by 4 percent overall, but the number of fatalities increased by 18 percent. Pedal cyclist casualty rates per hundred million vehicle kilometres increased by 14 percent.

The statistics deal mainly with personal road injury accidents on public roads attended by the police or reported to the police within 30 days of the accident occurring. Fatalities refer to casualties who died within 30 days of the accident.