Police recorded road casualties by hit and run, type of vehicle and police force area

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Variable	Visibility	Selected values	Action
Date	Shown in table	All 60 values	Change values
By highways agency	Shown in table	All 4 values	Change values
Area	Shown in table	All 27 values	Change values
Severity	Shown in table	All 5 values	Change values
Type of vehicle	Shown in table	All 12 values	Change values
Hit and run	Shown in table	All 4 values	Change values
Data description	Shown in table	Number of casualties	Value cannot be changed

Table

Standard shorthand is used in this table: [p] = provisional, [r] = revised.

Data values	Data description	Date	Area	Severity	Type of vehicle	Hit and run	By highways agency
3	Number of casualties	Q1 2015	Wales	Killed	Pedestrians	Other	County Roads
3	Number of casualties	Q1 2015	Wales	Killed	Pedestrians	Other	Trunk Roads
6	Number of casualties	Q1 2015	Wales	Killed	Pedestrians	Other	All roads
1	Number of casualties	Q1 2015	Wales	Killed	Pedestrians	Hit and Run	County Roads
0	Number of casualties	Q1 2015	Wales	Killed	Pedestrians	Hit and Run	Trunk Roads
1	Number of casualties	Q1 2015	Wales	Killed	Pedestrians	Hit and Run	All roads
0	Number of casualties	Q1 2015	Wales	Killed	Pedestrians	Non-stop vehicle, not hit	County Roads
0	Number of casualties	Q1 2015	Wales	Killed	Pedestrians	Non-stop vehicle, not hit	Trunk Roads
0	Number of casualties	Q1 2015	Wales	Killed	Pedestrians	Non-stop vehicle, not hit	All roads
4	Number of casualties	Q1 2015	Wales	Killed	Pedestrians	Total	County Roads
3	Number of casualties	Q1 2015	Wales	Killed	Pedestrians	Total	Trunk Roads
7	Number of casualties	Q1 2015	Wales	Killed	Pedestrians	Total	All roads
1	Number of casualties	Q1 2015	Wales	Killed	Pedal cyclists	Other	County Roads
0	Number of casualties	Q1 2015	Wales	Killed	Pedal cyclists	Other	Trunk Roads
1	Number of casualties	Q1 2015	Wales	Killed	Pedal cyclists	Other	All roads
0	Number of casualties	Q1 2015	Wales	Killed	Pedal cyclists	Hit and Run	County Roads
0	Number of casualties	Q1 2015	Wales	Killed	Pedal cyclists	Hit and Run	Trunk Roads
0	Number of casualties	Q1 2015	Wales	Killed	Pedal cyclists	Hit and Run	All roads
0	Number of casualties	Q1 2015	Wales	Killed	Pedal cyclists	Non-stop vehicle, not hit	County Roads
0	Number of casualties	Q1 2015	Wales	Killed	Pedal cyclists	Non-stop vehicle, not hit	Trunk Roads
0	Number of casualties	Q1 2015	Wales	Killed	Pedal cyclists	Non-stop vehicle, not hit	All roads
1	Number of casualties	Q1 2015	Wales	Killed	Pedal cyclists	Total	County Roads
0	Number of casualties	Q1 2015	Wales	Killed	Pedal cyclists	Total	Trunk Roads
1	Number of casualties	Q1 2015	Wales	Killed	Pedal cyclists	Total	All roads
1	Number of casualties	Q1 2015	Wales	Killed	Motorcyclists	Other	County Roads

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Next update expected:October 2026

Updates

• 29th July 2026:

  This update includes the publication of quarter 1 2026 data and revised estimates for quarters 2 and 3 of 2025.

• 4th June 2026:

  This update includes the publication of Quarter 4 2025 data and revised estimates for 2024 and 2025.

• 29th January 2026:

  This update includes the publication of Quarter 3 2025 data and revised estimates for Quarters 1 and 2 of 2025.

• 25th September 2025: Dataset first published.

Main information

• Designation: Accredited official statistics
• Data provider: Welsh Government
• Data source: Police recorded road collisions
• Dataset ID: b77bbe6c-a49a-4cb9-af7b-486c3a5fff40

Overview

• Summary of dataset and variables:

  The number of casualties in police-recorded road collisions by hit and run, type of vehicle, severity, area and date

• Data collection or calculation:

  The police compile statistical data about road traffic accidents and casualties (called Stats19 data) for the Welsh Government and the Department for Transport (DfT). This follows police attendance at accidents that involve any personal injury, together with members of the public reporting personal injury accidents directly to the police. The figures are based on information available to the Welsh Government 14 weeks after the end of the latest quarter. The Stats19 data are a set of numeric and alphabet characters. A casualty is defined as, a person killed or injured in an accident. One accident may give rise to several casualties. Casualties and accidents are subdivided into killed, seriously injured and slightly injured categories. Casualties reported as killed include only those cases where death occurs in less than 30 days as a result of the accident. They do not include those who died as a result of natural causes (e.g. heart attack) rather than as a result of the accident, nor do they include confirmed suicides.

• Statistical quality:

  The figures in this dataset show the severity of a casualty's injuries as reported by the police officer that recorded the collision. These unadjusted severities are not consistent across different recording methods and care should be taken when comparing the number of serious or slight casualties over time or between police force areas. Dyfed-Powys Police adopted an improved injury-based reporting system in May 2023 and South Wales Police adopted it in November 2025. North Wales Police and Gwent Police have not yet changed their reporting system. In future releases we will publish figures using adjusted severities. These adjusted figures can reliably be used to compare trends over time across the country. As South Wales Police have only adopted the new reporting system recently, adjusted figures are currently too volatile to be meaningful at the level of detail presented in this dataset. We describe the changes to how injury severity is recorded by police forces across Great Britain in our Chief Statistician's blog understanding road collision and casualty statistics. To assist users with what this change means, we have recently published a further Chief Statistician’s update explaining these changes, their impacts and the adjustments needed to severity data.

  The figures shown may change in future if there are late amendments. Similarly, the figures for earlier years may differ from those previously published. The figures cover only road accidents reported to the police involving personal injury. This data is obtained from administrative sources and thus may be affected by changes in procedures within those systems. There is some possibility of under-reporting and under-recording as well as for the misclassification of accidents though these are minimised by local authorities and the Welsh Government conducting a number of data validations. For example, Welsh Government data analysts may query the location of an accident with a police force when the grid reference of an accident is in a different local authority to the one specified in the data return. These issues are discussed in more detail in a Statistical Article ‘Quality Report for Welsh Road Casualties’. This article also summarises the sources and methods used to compile the road accident and casualty figures for Wales. It also reviews the quality of the resulting figures in terms of the six dimensions of statistical quality of the European Statistical System. The aim is to provide background information about road casualty statistics for Wales in a single document for all users of the published statistics. It is available from the following link: https://www.gov.wales/road-casualties-quality-report

• Related reports:
  • Road casualties quality report

Published by

• Organisation: Welsh Government
• Contact email: stats.transport@gov.wales