Road traffic collisions 2019-2025

Your request details

Could you please supply me with the following information concerning road traffic collisions(RTCs) as outlined below.

• The total number of road traffic collisions (RTCs), sometimes known as road trafficaccidents (RTAs), that occurred within your force area in the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023,and 2024

• Please breakdown the data annually, showing the number of RTCs per year

• Additionally, please further breakdown the number of collisions into the following threecategories, as defined by police reporting standards:

• Fatal (at least on person was killed)

• Serious (at least one person suffered serious injuries, but no one was killed)

• Slight (no one was seriously injured or killed)

Response

I approached our Operational Support Unit for assistance with your request, they provided me with thefollowing:

Question 1

I have included CASUALTIES as well as the requested COLLISIONS, as often people get the twoconfused, despite them not been the same

Please note, every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete.However, it is important to note that data has been extracted from data sources used by this force for policepurposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request is subject to the inaccuracies inherentin any large-scale recording systems and information assets.The figures provided therefore are our best interpretation of relevance of data to your request, but youshould be aware that the collation of figures/data for any requests may have limitations, and this should betaken into account when those data sets are used.Police forces do not use generic systems or identical procedures for capturing the data. For these reasonsthis response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with responses you mayreceive from other police forces