To ask His Majesty's Government what is the most recent figure for the number of people killed annually in road traffic accidents in England per million of the resident population; and how this compares with the rate of deaths in road traffic accidents in each of the other parts of the United Kingdom.
Answered on
10 April 2025
Data on road injury collisions are reported by police using the STATS19 system. In STATS19, a fatality is defined as a death that occurred within 30 days of the collision. The rates of fatalities in road collisions in 2023 per million population for different parts of the United Kingdom are shown in the table below.
Region | Fatality rate per million population (2023) |
United Kingdom | 24.8 |
Great Britain | 24.5 |
England | 23.7 |
Wales | 31.9 |
Scotland | 27.9 |
Northern Ireland | 37.0 |