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

Source: DfT.

GB fatalities by mode

Source: DfT.

Road fatalities by country

Country	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Great Britain	1,850	1,901	1,754	1,713	1,775	1,730	1,792	1,793	1,784	1,752
Northern Ireland	55	59	48	57	79	74	68	63	55	56
United Kingdom	1,905	1,960	1,802	1,770	1,854	1,804	1,860	1,856	1,839	1,808
Austria	552	523	531	455	430	475	432	413	409	416
Belgium	840	875	767	723	727	755	637	620	604	646
Bulgaria	775	658	605	601	655	708	708	682	611	628
Croatia	426	416	393	368	308	348	307	331	317	297
Cyprus	60	71	51	44	45	57	46	53	49	52
Czech Republic	802	773	742	654	688	732	611	577	658	617
Denmark	265	220	167	191	182	180	211	183	171	199
Estonia	78	101	87	81	78	67	71	48	67	52
Finland	270	292	255	258	224	260	258	212	239	209
France	3,992	3,970	3,653	3,268	3,384	3,464	3,477	3,448	3,248	3,239
Germany	3,651	4,002	3,601	3,339	3,377	3,475	3,206	3,177	3,275	3,046
Greece	1,281	1,087	1,027	879	795	805	824	739	700	696
Hungary	739	638	605	591	626	647	607	624	629	603
Irish Republic	212	186	162	188	194	166	186	157	140	141
Italy	3,998	3,800	3,650	3,385	3,381	3,430	3,283	3,340	3,334	3,130
Latvia	218	179	177	179	212	188	158	136	148	132
Lithuania	300	297	301	258	265	241	192	192	173	184
Luxembourg	32	33	34	45	35	36	32	25	36	22
Malta	15	17	9	18	10	11	22	19	18	16
Netherlands	640	661	650	570	570	620	629	613	678	661
Poland	3,907	4,189	3,571	3,357	3,202	2,938	2,992	2,831	2,859	2,904
Portugal	845	785	743	637	638	627	565	624	675	621
Romania	2,377	2,018	2,042	1,861	1,818	1,893	1,913	1,951	1,867	1,864
Slovakia	353	324	295	223	258	274	275	276	229	245
Slovenia	138	141	130	125	108	120	130	104	91	102
Spain	2,470	2,056	1,903	1,680	1,661	1,688	1,810	1,827	1,806	1,755
Sweden	266	314	285	260	270	259	270	253	324	221
Israel	352	341	263	277	279	322	335	321	316	355
Iceland	8	12	9	15	4	16	18	16	18	6
Norway	210	168	145	187	147	118	135	106	108	108
Serbia	660	731	688	650	536	599	607	579	546	534
Switzerland	327	320	286	269	243	253	216	230	233	187
Australia	1,366	1,292	1,299	1,185	1,155	1,207	1,296	1,227	1,136	1,195
Canadar	2,237	2,006	2,077	1,923	1,834	1,899	1,899	1,856	1,922	0
Japan	5,745	5,449	5,237	5,152	4,838	4,859	4,698	4,431	4,166	3,920
New Zealand	375	284	308	253	295	320	327	379	377	353
Republic of Korea	5,505	5,229	5,392	5,092	4,762	4,621	4,292	4,182	3,781	3,349
USA	32,788	32,310	33,561	32,719	32,675	38,300	37,461	37,150	36,560	36,120

Source: Eurostat.

The number of fatalities recorded on UK roads has fallen 5% since 2010, but fatal or serious accidents have increased on non-A-roads.