Road Traffic Collisions Data 2022-2024

Request

1. The number of recorded road traffic collisions broken down by the age of the driver involved and the severity of the road traffic collision (e.g. no injury, serious injury, death of either the driver or passengers) for 2024 to date, 2023 and 2022.

2. The number of collisions where a young driver (ideally aged 17 – 24) was in charge of a vehicle and collided with another vehicle for 2024 to date, 2023 and 2022. If possible, please include the severity of the collision (e.g. no injury, serious injury, death of either the driver or passengers).

If limited by time constraints, please answer the questions in order (1, 2) and please state if any information cannot be provided. Please get in touch if any of the above needs further clarification.

Response

We approached our operational Support Unit (OSU) with your request. An analyst has provided the following data and explanations for their search criteria:

Please note:

• All data is live and may differ from data published elsewhere.
• All data is unaudited and subject to change..
• Data extracted is equal to DRIVER / DRIVER OWNER.
• Age data may include errors where age of the driver is not known or has been inputted incorrectly.
• Collisions can contain more than 1 driver where collisions involve more than 1 vehicle, hence only count of collision is provided
• Young driver data is filtered on drivers ages 17 – 24.
• Young driver data is also filtered to just show collisions involving more than 1 vehicle, as per question 2 instruction of , “collided with another vehicle.”
• Roles in collision options are only : Driver / Passenger or Pedestrian - data provided is only for Driver

Q1: By severity: 

Q1: By age - please see the attached spreadsheet -24.011232

Q2: Total count of collisions by year where driver is ages 17-24, involving more than one vehicle:

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 police purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording systems and information assets.

The figures provided therefore are our best interpretation of relevance of data to your request, but you should be aware that the collation of figures/data for any requests may have limitations, and this should be taken into account when those data are used

Police forces do not use generic systems or identical procedures for capturing the data. For these reasons this response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with responses you may receive from other police forces.