In reported road traffic accidents in 2014:
- Road deaths increased by 4% compared with 2013, rising to 1,775
- The number of people seriously injured increased by 5% to 22,807 in 2014
- There was a total of 194,477 casualties of all severities in reported road traffic accidents during 2014
- A total of 146,322 personal-injury road traffic accidents were reported to the police in 2014 – of these accidents, 1,658 resulted in at least 1 fatality
- Three-quarters of the increase in road deaths were pedestrian casualties
- Total reported child casualties rose by 6.2% to 16,727, compared with 2013 – there was a similar rise of 5% in the number of seriously injured child casualties and 5 more child deaths in 2014
- Traffic volumes rose by 2.4% between 2013 and 2014 – this is the highest rate of growth of motor vehicle traffic since 1996
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