7. Child Casualties (Table 4)

7. Child Casualties (Table 4)

7.1 There were 974 child casualties reported in 2015 representing 9% of all casualties (974 out of 10,950) and a reduction of 59 (or 6%) on 2014. Of these, 140 were seriously injured and 5 died, 2 fewer deaths than in 2014. One of the five children killed in 2015 was in a car, three were pedestrians and one was a pedal cyclist. 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 [Table 7].

7.2 There were 460 child pedestrian casualties recorded in 2015. They accounted for 27% of all pedestrian casualties of all ages (460 out of 1,688). Of the child pedestrian casualties, 97 were seriously injured (3 died). The number killed was the same as 2014 but the number of seriously injured was 20 less than in 2014.

7.3 In 2015, there were 378 child casualties in cars, 6% of all car user casualties (378 out of 6,701). Of the child casualties in cars, 28 were seriously injured (1 died): an increase of  one  in the number of serious but three less killed than in 2014. In 2015, there were 71 child pedal cycle casualties (9% of the total of 794 pedal cycle casualties of all ages) including 11 who were seriously injured, there was one child killed on a pedal cycle in 2014, compared with none in 2014.

Table 4: Child casualties by built-up and non built-up roads, mode of transport and severity, 2013-2015 & 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
2013	3	88	452	2	4	12	5	92	464
2014	2	115	494	1	2	8	3	117	502
2015 prov.	1	95	450	2	2	10	3	97	460
% change on 2014	*	-17%	-9%	*	*	*	*	-17%	-8%
on 04-08 average	*	-55%	-54%	*	*	*	*	-56%	-54%
Pedal cycle
2004-08 average	2	27	194	1	2	9	2	29	203
2013	1	9	105	1	2	7	2	11	112
2014	0	17	74	0	1	6	0	18	80
2015 prov.	1	11	70	0	0	1	1	11	71
% change on 2014	*	*	-5%	*	*	*	*	*	-11%
on 04-08 average	*	*	-64%	*	*	*	*	*	-65%
Car
2004-08 average	1	18	316	6	44	353	6	62	670
2013	0	7	207	2	27	201	2	34	408
2014	0	3	206	4	24	184	4	27	390
2015 prov.	1	7	192	0	21	186	1	28	378
% change on 2014	*	*	-7%	*	*	1%	*	*	-3%
on 04-08 average	*	*	-39%	*	*	-47%	*	-55%	-44%
Bus/Coach
2004-08 average	0	3	68	0	0	20	0	3	88
2013	0	1	27	0	2	24	0	3	51
2014	0	2	29	0	0	1	0	2	30
2015 prov.	0	2	41	0	0	1	0	2	42
% change on 2014	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
on 04-08 average	*	*	-40%	*	*	*	*	*	-52%
Other
2004-08 average	1	9	39	0	3	23	1	13	62
2013	0	2	9	0	1	14	0	3	23
2014	0	6	26	0	2	5	0	8	31
2015 prov.	0	2	14	0	0	9	0	2	23
% change on 2014	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
on 04-08 average	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	-63%
All child casualties
2004-08 average	7	267	1,593	8	59	426	15	325	2,019
2013	4	107	800	5	36	258	9	143	1,058
2014	2	143	829	5	29	204	7	172	1,033
2015 prov.	3	117	767	2	23	207	5	140	974
% change on 2014	*	-18%	-7%	*	*	1%	*	-19%	-6%
on 04-08 average	*	-56%	-52%	*	-61%	-51%	*	-57%	-52%

1 Figures for 2013 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.