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GB accidents by road class and severity

Type of road	Type of accident	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
Motorways	Fatal	113	92	80	97	85	96	87	77	92	100	76
	Fatal or serious	781	702	626	641	680	712	769	702	778	764	543
	All severities	6,500	5,819	5,615	5,397	5,630	5,550	5,405	4,778	4,566	4,130	2,581
A roads	Fatal	964	1,041	896	905	917	919	980	952	939	909	736
	Fatal or serious	10,322	10,754	10,387	9,832	10,213	9,771	10,449	10,740	11,092	11,237	8,658
	All severities	70,274	69,889	67,166	64,423	67,828	64,280	61,455	56,461	53,499	52,342	40,604
Other roads	Fatal	654	664	661	606	656	601	628	647	640	649	579
	Fatal or serious	11,068	11,327	11,525	10,759	11,441	11,171	12,202	12,768	12,966	13,079	10,545
Total	Fatal or serious	22,171	22,783	22,538	21,232	22,334	21,654	23,420	24,210	24,836	25,080	11,587
	All severities	154,414	151,474	145,571	138,660	146,322	140,056	136,621	129,982	122,635	117,536	91,199

Source: DfT.

GB fatalities by mode

Source: DfT.

Road fatalities by country

Country	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
European Union - 27 countries (from 2020)	28,671	26,457	24,182	24,131	24,358	23,808	23,393	23,331	22,755	18,786
Belgium	884	827	764	745	762	670	609	604	646	497
Bulgaria	656	601	601	661	708	708	682	610	628	463
Czechia	773	742	654	688	734	611	577	656	618	518
Denmark	220	167	191	182	178	211	175	171	199	155
Germany (until 1990 former territory of the FRG)	4,009	3,600	3,339	3,377	3,459	3,206	3,180	3,275	3,046	2,719
Estonia	101	87	81	78	67	71	48	67	52	59
Ireland	186	163	188	192	162	182	155	138	140	147
Greece	1,141	988	879	795	793	824	731	700	688	584
Spain	1,983	1,859	1,636	1,679	1,689	1,810	1,830	1,806	1,755	1,362
France	3,963	3,653	3,268	3,384	3,459	3,471	3,444	3,246	3,237	2,515
Croatia	418	393	368	308	348	307	331	317	297	237
Italy	3,860	3,753	3,401	3,381	3,428	3,283	3,378	3,334	3,173	2,388
Cyprus	71	51	44	45	57	46	53	49	52	48
Latvia	179	177	179	212	188	158	136	148	132	139
Lithuania	296	302	256	267	242	188	191	173	185	173
Luxembourg	33	34	45	35	36	32	25	36	22	26
Hungary	638	605	591	626	644	607	625	633	602	460
Malta	16	9	17	10	11	23	19	18	16	12
Netherlands	546	562	476	476	531	533	535	598	586	515
Austria	523	531	455	430	479	432	414	409	416	344
Poland	4,189	3,571	3,357	3,202	2,938	3,026	2,831	2,862	2,909	2,491
Portugal	891	718	637	638	593	563	602	700	688	536
Romania	2,018	2,042	1,861	1,818	1,893	1,913	1,951	1,867	1,864	1,644
Slovenia	141	130	125	108	120	130	104	91	102	80
Slovakia	325	352	251	295	310	275	276	260	270	247
Finland	292	255	258	229	270	258	238	239	211	223
Sweden	319	285	260	270	259	270	253	324	221	204
Iceland	12	9	15	4	16	18	16	18	6	8
Liechtenstein	2	1	2	3	2	0	2	0	0	0
Norway	168	145	187	147	117	135	106	108	108	93
Switzerland	320	339	269	243	253	216	230	233	187	227
United Kingdom	1,960	1,754	1,713	1,775	1,730	1,792	1,793	1,784	1,752	1,460
Türkiye	3,750	3,750	3,685	3,524	7,530	7,300	7,427	6,675	5,473	5,473

Source: Eurostat.

The overarching trend since 2012 is one of a steady increase in the number of both fatal and serious accidents across all road types in the UK.