Reproducing Reported road casualties in Great Britain: pedestrian factsheet

Introduction

This document aims to reproduce the 2020-2024 sections of the “Accredited official statistics Reported road casualties in Great Britain: pedestrian factsheet, 2024” report published on 25th September 2025.

1. Main findings

Between 2004 and 2024:

fatalities were down 39% from 671 to 409
serious injuries (adjusted) decreased by 42%
pedestrian traffic (distance walked) increased by 23%

Averaged over the period 2020 to 2024:

an average of 7 pedestrians died and 103 were seriously injured (adjusted) per week in reported road collisions
a majority of pedestrian fatalities (%) do not occur at or within 20m of a junction compared to % of all seriously injured (adjusted) casualties
55% of pedestrian fatalities were in collisions involving a single car
% of pedestrian fatalities occurred on rural roads compared to % of all pedestrian casualties
57% of pedestrian killed or seriously injured (KSI) (adjusted) casualties were male

The most common contributory factor allocated to pedestrians no contributory factors included in the public data

2. Pedestrian traffic and reported casualties

In 2024, 409 pedestrians were killed in Great Britain, whilst 5823 were reported to be seriously injured and 12944 slightly injured.

Table 1 and Chart 1 show that pedestrian traffic (measured by distance walked) has increased between 2004 and 2024 whilst fatalities, serious and slight injuries have fallen.

Between 2023 and 2024, pedestrian fatalities increased by 1% while pedestrian traffic (distance walked) increased by 3%.

Year	Killed	Serious	Slight	All	Traffic
Table 1: Number of reported pedestrian casualties by severity and traffic (pedestrian billion miles walked), GB: 2004 to 2024
2004	671	9992	24218	34881	12.89
2005	671	9445	23165	33281	12.64
2006	675	9059	21248	30982	13.01
2007	646	8804	20741	30191	12.35
2008	572	8410	19500	28482	12.45
2009	500	7777	18610	26887	12.93
2010	405	7334	18106	25845	12.13
2011	453	7627	18118	26198	12.49
2012	420	7645	17153	25218	12.13
2013	398	6982	16653	24033	12.54
2014	446	7105	17197	24748	12.25
2015	408	6852	16801	24061	12.51
2016	448	6480	16622	23550	13.00
2017	470	6476	16859	23805	13.59
2018	456	6637	15339	22432	13.90
2019	470	6402	14898	21770	13.63
2020	346	4302	10102	14750	14.66
2021	361	4949	11344	16654	14.08
2022	385	5872	13070	19327	14.95
2023	405	6049	12809	19263	15.41
2024	409	5823	12944	19176	15.92
Source: DfT STATS19, National Travel Survey and Office for National Statistics population data

3. How far do pedestrians travel?

The National Travel Survey (NTS) which provides the number of trips and average distance travelled (NTS0303) by person per year for English residents. This is used to derive casualty rates per mile travelled for pedestrians, which also use the Great Britain population figure to estimate total distance walked each year.

4. Casualty rates per mile travelled

The pedestrian casualty rate has fallen for all severities in 2024 compared to 2004.

The overall casualty rate decreased by 55%. The fatality rate decreased by 50% compared to a 53% reduction for serious injuries and a 57% reduction for slight injuries.

Year	Killed	Serious	Slight	All
Table 2: Casualty rates of pedestrian casualties by severity per billion miles walked, GB: 2004 to 2024
2004	52	775	1879	2706
2005	53	747	1832	2632
2006	52	696	1633	2381
2007	52	713	1680	2445
2008	46	676	1567	2288
2009	39	601	1439	2079
2010	33	605	1493	2131
2011	36	611	1451	2098
2012	35	631	1415	2080
2013	32	557	1328	1917
2014	36	580	1403	2020
2015	33	548	1343	1923
2016	34	498	1278	1811
2017	35	477	1241	1752
2018	33	477	1104	1614
2019	34	470	1093	1598
2020	24	293	689	1006
2021	26	351	805	1182
2022	26	393	874	1292
2023	26	393	831	1250
2024	26	366	813	1205

5. Sex and age comparisons

Between 2020 and 2024, 57% of pedestrian casualties were male and 43% female.

There are 1.3 times more male than female pedestrian casualties overall. This compares to 1.6 more for 30-39, 1.8 more for 0-11and 0.9 more for 70+ - the only age group in which female casualties outnumber males.

6. Which vehicles are involved in collisions with pedestrians?

Between 2020 and 2024, most pedestrian fatalities occurred in 1 vehicle collisions involving a car (1043).

However, the highest proportion of casualties from single vehicle collisions involve 1 heavy goods vehicle (16.4%). The second highest proportion (10.5%) occurred in collisions when 3 or more other vehicles involved.

Vehicles	Fatalities	Serious injuries	Slight injuries	All casualties	% Fatalities
Table 3: Pedestrian casualties in reported road collisions by severity showing other vehicles involved GB: 2020 to 2024
1 pedal cycle	9	738	1430	2177	0.4
1 motorcycle	51	1167	2447	3665	1.4
1 car	1043	19300	44608	64951	1.6
1 bus or coach	96	924	1809	2829	3.4
1 light goods vehicle	165	1936	4177	6278	2.6
1 heavy goods vehicle	176	394	502	1072	16.4
1 other vehicle	45	681	1565	2291	2.0
2 vehicles involved	201	1432	3151	4784	4.2
3 or more other vehicles involved	118	422	580	1120	10.5
Total	1904	26994	60269	89167	2.1

7. Time of day of collisions

The weekday peak time for pedestrian KSIs is from 3pm to 6pm. By contrast, the peak is from 4pm to 7pm at weekends.

8. What type of road?

Chart 5 shows that between 2020 and 2024, % of pedestrian fatalities occurred on urban roads compared to % of all pedestrian casualties. % of pedestrian fatalities occurred on motorways. This would be people outside their vehicles whether they are moving at the time or not.

In this report, urban roads are defined as those within an area of population of 10,000 or more in England and Wales or more than 3,000 in Scotland - roads outside of these areas are classified as rural https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/road-length-statistics-information/road-lengths-in-great-britain-statistics-notes-and-definitions.

9. Vehicle movement on the road

A majority of pedestrian fatalities (61.5%) occur 0 compared to 49.8% of serious injuries (adjusted). However, 0% of fatalities occur at a junction compared to 0% of serious injuries (adjusted). Pedestrian fatalities at roundabouts represent 0% of all fatalities in contrast to 0% of serious injuries (adjusted).

Junction	Fatalities	Serious	Slight	All casualties
Table 4: Percentage of pedestrian KSI casualties by severity and junction detail where the collision occurred, GB: 2020 to 2024
0	61.5%	49.8%	48.7%	49.3%
13	23.3%	30.2%	30%	29.9%
-1	5.8%	8%	9.9%	9.2%
16	7.1%	8.2%	7.5%	7.7%
18	1.6%	1.8%	2.1%	2%
17	0.7%	2%	1.7%	1.8%
99	0%	0%	0%	0%

Sections 10 not reproducible as data is not public and sections 11 and 14 are simply explanatory text.

Blaise Kelly

2025-10-02