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Non- members can purchase a copy from The Stationery Office (TSO). 6194 DFTRC Cvr v0 6396_Road indd 2 Casualties 08_COVER / sig1 / plateB 15/9/09 15:57:44 DEPARTMENT FOR TRANSPORT SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT WELSH ASSEMBLY GOVERNMENT Reported Road Casualties Great Britain: 2008 Annual Report Published September 2009 London: The Stationery Office Department for Transport Great Minster House, 76 Marsham Street London SW1P 4DR Telephone 020 7944 8300 Internet service http://www.dft.gov.uk # Crown copyright 2009 Copyright in the typographical arrangement rests with the Crown. This publication may be reproduced free of charge in any format or medium for non-commercial research, private study or internal circulation within an organisation. This is subject to it being reproduced accurately and not used in a misleading context. The material must be acknowledged as Crown copyright and the title of the document/publication specified. This publication can also be accessed at the Department’s web site. 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Contact Points: For general enquiries call the National Statistics Customer Contact Centre at: Room 1015, ONS, Government Buildings, Cardiff Road, Newport, Gwent NP10 8XG, Tel: 0845 601 3034, fax 01633 652747 or e-mail: [email protected] You can also obtain National Statistics through the internet – go to www.statistics.gov.uk. For information relating to Transport Statistics go to www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/statistics Prepared for publication by: Anil Bhagat Linden Francis Pat Kilbey Barbara Noble Matthew Tranter David Wilson Christopher Waite Yingbo Xu DfT is often prepared to sell unpublished data. Further information and queries concerning this publication should be directed to: RSS, 2/21, Great Minster House, 76 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DR, Tel: +44 (0) 20-7944 3078, Fax +44 (0)20-7944 2165, E-mail: [email protected] Acknowledgement The Department extends its grateful thanks to police forces and their officers for their contribution towards reducing road casualties, including the collection of STATS 19 data upon which this publication is based, and without which this government and road safety organisations would be much less well informed. Introduction Reported Road Casualties Great Britain 2008: Annual Report, (RRCGB) provides detailed statistics about the circumstances of personal injury road accidents, including the types of vehicles involved and the consequent casualties. Most of the statistics in this report are based on accidents reported to the police. There are also seven articles containing further analysis on specific road safety topics. These statistics are used to inform public debate and support policy on road safety. In 2008, deaths in road accidents were less than half the number reported in the first edition of this report in 1951. However, on average seven people were killed a day in 2008. The collection and publication of detailed road safety data helps to identify future priorities to further reduce casualties. The Department for Transport has been working with the Scottish Government and the Welsh Assembly Government on a new road safety strategy for the period from 2010. This will establish the approach, targets and measures for reducing casualties in the next decade and beyond. Consultation on the new strategy was carried out from April to July 2009 and it is expected that the final strategy will be published by the end of 2009. Very few, if any, fatal accidents do not become known to the police. However, it has long been known that a considerable proportion of non-fatal injury accidents are not reported to the police (and there is no legal obligation to do so). We have changed the titles of our publications to more closely reflect this. The Department is continuing to undertake research on levels of reporting. Article 5 in this publication discusses and compares other sources of data with police data on road casualties and provides a very broad estimate of the total number of road casualties. National and local government and police forces work closely to achieve an agreed national standard for the system for collecting and processing statistics on road accidents involving personal injury. The statistics are subjected to review about every five years as part of the continuing drive to improve quality and meet user needs whilst minimising the burden on providers. The external consultation process