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Fatal or serious road collisions per billion vehicle miles (adjusted) (18601) Metric type
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- This is the total of fatal or serious road collisions (FSC) reported, in an area, adjusted per billion vehicle miles.
The statistics refer to personal injury collisions on public roads (including footways) which become known to the police within 30 days. Damage-only collisions, with no human casualties, and collisions on private roads or car parks are not included in the statistics. The data are collected by police at the scene of a collision or in some cases reported by a member of the public at a police station or online. A fatal collision is a collision in which at least one person is killed. A serious collision is one in which at least one person is seriously injured but no person (other than a confirmed suicide) is killed. A slight collision, excluded from this total, is one in which at least one person is slightly injured but no person is killed or seriously injured.
Police forces use one of two systems for recording reported road traffic collisions; the CRaSH (Collision Recording and Sharing) or COPA (Case Overview Preparation Application). Estimates are calculated from figures which are as reported by police. Since 2016, changes in severity reporting systems for a large number of police forces mean that serious injury figures, and to a lesser extent slight injuries, are not comparable with earlier years. As a result both adjusted and unadjusted fatal or serious road collisions (FSC) are available. Further information about the reporting systems can be found here:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/road-accidents-and-safety-statistics-guidance
Areas with low resident populations but have high inflows of people or traffic may have artificially high rates because the at-risk resident population is not an accurate measure of exposure to transport. This is likely to affect the results for employment centres e.g. City of London and sparsely populated rural areas which have high numbers of visitors or through traffic.
Counts for Heathrow Airport are included in the London Region and England totals only.
- Modified
- 23 Mar 2023
- Data last updated
- 29 Sep 2023
- Short label
- Fatal or serious collisions per billion vehicle miles (adjusted)
- Status
- Live
- Output precision
- 0
- Polarity
- a low value is good
- Measure
- Per billion vehicle miles
- Dataset
- Reported road collision and casualties
- Source
- Department for Transport
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