Organisation: Welsh Assembly Government/Road Safety Wales
Date uploaded: 26th September 2012
Date published/launched: May 2012
This statistical bulletin looks police recorded road casualties in Wales.
• During 2011 there were 6,434 road accidents involving personal injury recorded by the police in Wales, 416 (6%) fewer than in 2010.
• These accidents resulted in 9,406 casualties, 549 (6%) fewer than in 2010.
Within this total:
• 121 people were killed on Welsh roads in 2011, 32 (36%) more than in 2010.
• 1,126 people were seriously injured in 2011, 128 (13%) more than in 2010.
• 8,159 people were slightly injured, a decrease of 709 (8%) compared with the previous year.
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