7. Child Casualties (Table 4)

7. Child Casualties (Table 4)

7.1 There were 1,062 child casualties reported in 2013 representing 9 per cent of all casualties (1,062 out of 11,493) and a reduction of 109 (or 9%) on 2012. Of these, 143 were seriously injured and 9 died. This was 7 more deaths than in 2012 but the numbers of fatalities are small, so care should be taken when drawing conclusions from year on year changes and trends should be looked at over the longer term. The three year average used to monitor progress against the Road Safety Framework targets shows individual years as fluctuating around the longer term trend.

7.2 There were 464 child pedestrian casualties recorded in 2013. They accounted for 27 per cent of all pedestrian casualties of all ages (464 out of 1,744). Of the child pedestrian casualties, 92 were seriously injured (5 died). The number killed was four more than in 2012 and the number of seriously injured was 41 fewer than in 2012.

7.3 In 2013, there were 414 child casualties in cars, 6 per cent of all car user casualties (414 out of 6,960). Of the child casualties in cars, 34 were seriously injured (2 died): no change in the number of serious but 2 more killed than in 2012. In 2013, there were 110 child pedal cycle casualties (12% of the total of 882 pedal cycle casualties of all ages) including 11 who were seriously injured (2 died).

Table 4: Child casualties by built-up and non built-up roads, mode of transport and severity, 2010-2012 & 2004-08 average

Mode of Transport	Built-up roads			Non built-up roads			All roads
	Killed	Serious	All	Killed	Serious	All	Killed	Serious	All
Pedestrian
2004-08 average	4	210	976	2	9	21	6	218	997
2011	2	135	631	0	4	15	2	139	646
2012	1	128	514	0	5	10	1	133	524
2013 prov.	3	88	452	2	4	12	5	92	464
% change on 2012	*	-31%	-12%	*	*	*	*	-31%	-11%
on 04-08 average	*	-58%	-54%	*	*	*	*	-58%	-53%
Pedal cycle
2004-08 average	2	27	194	1	2	9	2	29	203
2011	0	21	130	0	2	5	0	23	135
2012	1	18	115	0	3	7	1	21	122
2013 prov.	1	9	104	1	2	6	2	11	110
% change on 2012	*	*	-10%	*	*	*	*	*	-10%
on 04-08 average	*	*	-46%	*	*	*	*	*	-46%
Car
2004-08 average	1	18	316	6	44	353	6	62	670
2011	1	8	204	4	26	256	5	34	460
2012	0	14	224	0	20	227	0	34	451
2013 prov.	0	7	210	2	27	204	2	34	414
% change on 2012	*	*	-6%	*	*	-10%	*	*	-8%
on 04-08 average	*	*	-34%	*	*	-42%	*	-45%	-38%
Bus/Coach
2004-08 average	0	3	68	0	0	20	0	3	88
2011	0	3	42	0	1	11	0	4	53
2012	0	1	33	0	0	10	0	1	43
2013 prov.	0	1	27	0	2	24	0	3	51
% change on 2012	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
on 04-08 average	*	*	-60%	*	*	*	*	*	-42%
Other
2004-08 average	1	9	39	0	3	23	1	13	62
2011	0	3	19	0	0	3	0	3	22
2012	0	1	17	0	5	14	0	6	31
2013 prov.	0	2	9	0	1	14	0	3	23
% change on 2012	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
on 04-08 average	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	-63%
All child casualties
2004-08 average	7	267	1,593	8	59	426	15	325	2,019
2011	3	170	1,026	4	33	290	7	203	1,316
2012	2	162	903	0	33	268	2	195	1,171
2013 prov.	4	107	802	5	36	260	9	143	1,062
% change on 2012	*	-34%	-11%	*	*	-3%	*	-27%	-9%
on 04-08 average	*	-60%	-50%	*	-39%	-39%	*	-56%	-47%

1 Figures for 2012 and earlier years may differ slightly to those previously published due to late returns, or corrections to earlier returns.
2 * indicates that a percentage change is not shown because the denominator is 50 or fewer.

Figure 4: Progress towards the 2020 casualty reduction targets