Figures for the ultimate quarter of 2024/25 have been the very best since 2018/19
Highway deaths and severe accidents (KSIs) in London elevated sharply over the interval overlaying December and the early months of this yr to achieve their highest stage for that interval since 2018/19, in line with figures to be thought of by a Transport for London panel subsequent week.
A provisional whole of 1,096 KSIs arising from street site visitors collisions have been reported to the police in the course of the ultimate quarter (This fall) of 2024/25, overlaying December to the tip of March, comprising 27 fatalities and 1,069 severe accidents. It doesn’t give KSI totals for This fall 2023/24 or for This fall 2018/19.
A report for TfL’s security and safety panel to be thought of at a gathering on Monday 19 Might says (web page 80) that “earlier Quarter 4s had been exhibiting a year-on-year enchancment” for the reason that pandemic but additionally exhibits that the most recent determine missed TfL’s goal of 979 KSIs.
“The development noticed this yr might partially be defined by the unusually good climate,” the report says, including that this “usually ends in an increase in exercise on London’s roads, significantly of individuals strolling, biking and motorcycling, who’re most susceptible”.
Nearly all of the 27 fatalities throughout This fall have been of individuals on foot, accounting for 16 of them, a discount from 20 within the earlier yr’s This fall, the report says. It doesn’t present numbers of deaths of individuals biking, motorcycling or driving in the course of the interval.
Of the 1,069 severe accidents throughout This fall, the report says:
381 have been sustained by individuals when strolling (up from 332 in This fall 2023/4)
261 have been sustained by individuals when biking (up from 214 in This fall 2023/24)
158 have been sustained by individuals in vehicles (up from 150 in This fall 2023/34)
The report doesn’t give severe accidents quantity for motorcycling, however says there was a “slight lower” in This fall 2024/25 in contrast with This fall the earlier yr.
The report additionally says that in the entire of 2024/25 there have been 3,802 KSIs on London’s roads, representing a 4 per cent improve on the three,670 of the earlier monetary yr, though the variety of deaths inside that fell from 105 to 98.
Of the 98 fatalities throughout the entire of 2024/25, the report says:
54 have been strolling in contrast with 56 in 2023/24 and 65 within the 2019/20 pre-pandemic yr.
13 have been motorcycling, down from 23 in 2023/4 and 35 in 2019/20.
9 have been biking, yet another than in 2023/4. No determine for bike owner fatalities within the 2019/20 monetary yr is given within the report.
Of the three,704 severe accidents sustained on London’s roads throughout the entire of 2024/25, up from 3,565 in 2023/24, the report says:
1,182 have been strolling (up from 1,175 in 2023/24)
783 have been motorcycling (up from 739 in 2023/24)
1,037 have been biking (up from 919 in 2023/24)
The report says these will increase are “not considered a big development” and that the three,704 severe accidents whole for 2024/25 is decrease than for 2021/2 (3,801) and for 2022/23 (3,815). It acknowledges that 1,037 collection accidents to cyclists can be larger than the totals for 2021/22 (1,023) and for 2022/23 (1,009) however states:
“We’ve got seen a big improve within the variety of biking journeys for the reason that pandemic, suggesting that whereas the variety of individuals killed or severely injured whereas biking has elevated barely, the general threat of being killed or severely injured whereas biking continues to lower post-pandemic.”
It provides: “extra evaluation of the development in threat shall be carried out when updated journey information turns into accessible”. Lilli Matson, TfL’s chief security, well being and atmosphere officer instructed On London that every one these affected by fatalities and severe accidents have the organisation’s deepest sympathies and mentioned:
“Working alongside the police and native boroughs, our utmost precedence is the protection of Londoners and we stay dedicated to eliminating demise and severe damage on the capital’s roads and transport community by way of the Mayor’s Imaginative and prescient Zero motion plan. There was a sustained discount within the quantity of people that have died on the roads post-pandemic (2022, 2023 and 2024) in comparison with pre-pandemic (2017, 2018 and 2019), significantly for individuals strolling and motorcycling. Nonetheless, we recognise that there’s far more to do and we’re decided to proceed working in partnership with the police and boroughs to finish the devastation brought on by street hazard.”
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