You asked
Please can you provide me with the statistics for pedestrian casualties on crossings between 2017 to present please.
We said
Thank you for your request.
We are responsible for the production of Mortality data for England and Wales, this is driven by information collected from the death certificate at death registration.
All of the conditions mentioned on the death certificate are coded using the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) the coded mortality data available up to end of December 2019 is coded to version 2014 of the ICD10 framework. From all of these causes an underlying cause of death is selected using ICD-10 coding rules. The underlying cause of death is defined by WHO as:
a) the disease or injury that initiated the train of events directly leading to death, or
b) the circumstances of the accident or violence that produced the fatal injury
Unfortunately, we would not know the circumstances around the death, i.e. crossing. We would only be provided with the mortality details via the death certificate.
We do have annual mortality data available by cause for the years 2013 to 2019, this is available as part of our explorable dataset available on our NOMIS webservice. ONS code pedestrian transport accidents as an external cause of death under V01-V09.
- Select the geography (England and Wales, regional or by local authority).
- Select Age – All ages or 5 year age bands.
- Select Gender – Total or Male/Female
- Select rates – All deaths, rates or percentage of population for example.
- Select cause of death (ICD10 code search is available). V01-V09
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We are unable to provide you with a breakdown of the number of deaths from traffic accidents in 2020 so far. ONS has not undertaken this analysis and does not currently hold information for that period. In order to fulfil this request, we would need to create bespoke analysis. Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, Public Authorities are not obligated to create information in order to respond to requests.
A full breakdown of mortality data for 2020 is expected to be available in our annual deaths registration publication. This is provisionally scheduled for release in July 2021.
You may be able to acquire further information on traffic accidents from the Department for Transport. They can be contacted via email at: roadacc.stats@dft.gov.uk.
If you would like to discuss ONS statistics further, please contact health.data@ons.gov.uk.