Reported Road Casualties in Great Britain: Quarterly Provisional Estimates 2012 Q3

Reported Road Casualties in Great Britain: Quarterly Provisional Estimates is a series providing estimates of personal-injury road accidents on public accidents (including footways) and their casualties which became known to the police within 30 days. This publication contains statistics for the year ending September 2012.

Estimates are based on information reported to the Department for Transport 15 weeks after the end of the latest quarter. For this release figures are based on information available on 23rd January 2013.

The key findings from the Quarterly Provisional Estimates 2012 Q3 include:
• For reported road accidents in the year ending September 2012, there were 1,760 fatalities, a 7& drop from the year ending September 2011 figure (1,883). However, the number of people killed or seriously injured rose to 24,860, a 2% increase compared with the year ending September 2011 figure (24,473).
• Both pedestrian and all road user child KSIs (ages 0-15) fell by 1% between the years ending September 2011 and 2012.
• The number of fatal accidents on major roads (motorways and A roads) fell by 9% and the number of fatal or serious accidents fell by 2%. However, fatal and serious accidents have rose by 5% on minor roads.
• There were a total number of 197,730 casualties from 146,980 accidents in the year ending September 2012. These figures represent a 3% fall from the year ending September 2011 for both casualties (from 204,211) and accidents (from 151,162).
• In comparison, motor vehicle traffic levels rose by 0.2% compared with 12 month period ending September 2011.