Road deaths in Great Britain decreased by 16 percent decrease in 2020

​ Headline figures These provisional statistics show:

• an estimated 1,472 reported road deaths in 2020 which includes a total of 4 months of national lockdown (April to June and November)
• an estimated 23,486 killed or seriously injured (KSI) casualties in 2020, a decrease of 22% compared to the same period in 2019
• 115,333 casualties of all severities in 2020, a decrease of 25% from 2019
• the reduction in road traffic followed a similar trend in the same period and decreased by 21%
• pedal cyclist casualty rates saw the greatest percentage decrease (34%) compared to all other road user types

A monthly breakdown can be found in our COVID analysis release.
Chart 1: Total casualties, all road traffic (billion vehicle miles), fatalities and KSI in Great Britain, 2010 to 2020 (RAS30001)
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