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During 2018, there were a total of 160,597 casualties of all severity's in reported road traffic accidents.
It is known that non-fatal (and particularly slight) casualties are under reported to the police and therefore this figure is likely to be an underestimate of the total.
The report shows the number of fatalities per billion vehicle miles travelled has fallen sharply from 2008 till present. This is due to killed or seriously injured casualty numbers having declined slightly since 2010 while traffic has increased over the same period. The casualty rate per billion vehicle miles travelled has decreased throughout 2008 to 2018 from 735.7 to 484.5 casualties per billion vehicle miles, a decrease of 34%.
In 2018, car occupants accounted for 44% of road deaths, pedestrians 26%, motorcyclists 20% and pedal cyclists 6%. These 3 road users are the most vulnerable as the number of incidents are at their highest.
The above bar chart shows the number of casualties of each casualty/vehicle type. The colour detail shows the average age of the casualties.
A significant number of accidents occur for car occupants averaging at 38 years old.
At a glance, car occupants, cyclists, pedestrians and motor cyclists are the most vulnerable road users. The average ages in these four categories range between 29 and 38. This age band would be the most at risk in road accidents. Because we do not know the total number of people in each mode of transport compared to the number who then get into accidents we can't say that one mode of transport is more dangerous than any other. For example, it would appear on first glance that because there are so many more car occupants having casualties than motorcycles, that driving a car is approximately 10 times more dangerous than riding a motorcycle. This is very unlikely to be true however and is likely to be because the vast majority of road users are in cars compared to a much smaller number of motorcycles.
The video below was created using Adobe spark software. The purpose of the info graphic is for online social media usage to increase awareness amongst road users about casualty rates. The time limit was kept to under a minute to keep views engaged with short snippets to easily process the information. The button below links to the casualties report from the department for transport.
Data_report_2018_reported_road_casualties (2).mp4(There seems to be an error when clicking play on the video but if the icon on the top right is clicked, the video should click out and play.)
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