This publication provides the number of personal-injury road -traffic accidents in Great Britain that were reported to the police in 2015. It also includes the number of people killed or injured in these accidents and which road user group they were in. The figures make up part of a long running series going back to 1926. The current set of definitions and detail of information goes back to 1979, providing a long period for comparison. The information used to create these statistics are collected by police forces, either through officers attending the scene of accidents or from members of the public reporting the accident in police stations after the incident. There is no obligation for people to report all personal injury accidents to the police (although there is an obligation under certain conditions, as outlined in the Road Traffic Act). These figures, therefore, do not represent the full range of all accidents or casualties in the country. Please see the section on strengths and weaknesses of the data for further details. All accidents that were reported to the police and that occurred on a public highway involving at least one motor vehicle, horse rider or pedal cyclist, and where at least one person was injured are included. Accidents that happened on private land (including private drives) or car parks are not included in the statistics. There were 1,732 reported road deaths in 2015, a decrease of 2% compared with 2014. This is the second lowest annual total on record after 2013. There were 45 per cent fewer fatalities in 2015 than a decade earlier in 2006. This publication provides the number of personal-injury road traffic accidents in Great Britain that were reported to the police for 2015. It also includes the number of people killed or injured in these accidents and which road user group they were in. (Author/publisher)
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