7. Child Casualties (Table 4)
7. Child Casualties (Table 4)
7.1 There were 1,315 child casualties reported in 2011 representing 10 per cent of all casualties (1,315 out of 12,763) and a reduction of 63 (or 5%) on 2010. Of these, 203 were seriously injured and 7 died, 5 of the deaths were as passengers in cars. This was 3 more deaths than in 2010 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 fluctuatiing around the longer term trend.
7.2 There were 645 child pedestrian casualties recorded in 2011. They accounted for 31 per cent of all pedestrian casualties of all ages (645 out of 2,057). Of the child pedestrian casualties, 139 were seriously injured (2 died). The number killed was one more than in 2010 and the number of seriously injured was 11 less than in 2010.
7.3 In 2011, there were 460 child casualties in cars, 6 per cent of all car user casualties (460 out of 7,768). Of the child casualties in cars, 34 were seriously injured (5 died): a fall of 6 serious and 4 more killed than in 2010. In 2011, there were 135 child pedal cycle casualties (16% of the total of 824 pedal cycle casualties of all ages), 53 child bus and coach user casualties (11% of the total of 502 of all ages) and 22 other child casualties. The child pedal cycle casualties included 23 who were seriously injured (none died).
| Mode of | Built-up roads | Non built-up roads | All roads | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Transport | Killed | Serious | All | Killed | Serious | All | Killed | Serious | All |
| Pedestrian | |||||||||
| 2004-08 average | 4 | 210 | 976 | 2 | 9 | 21 | 6 | 218 | 997 |
| 2009 | 1 | 147 | 660 | 0 | 8 | 14 | 1 | 155 | 674 |
| 2010 | 1 | 146 | 635 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 150 | 643 |
| 2011 prov. | 2 | 135 | 630 | 0 | 4 | 15 | 2 | 139 | 645 |
| % change on 2010 | * | -8% | -1% | * | * | * | * | -7% | 0% |
| on 04-08 average | * | -36% | -35% | * | * | * | * | -36% | -35% |
| Pedal cycle | |||||||||
| 2004-08 average | 2 | 27 | 194 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 29 | 203 |
| 2009 | 1 | 25 | 142 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 26 | 148 |
| 2010 | 1 | 22 | 137 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 23 | 146 |
| 2011 prov. | 0 | 21 | 130 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 23 | 135 |
| % change on 2010 | * | * | -5% | * | * | * | * | * | -8% |
| on 04-08 average | * | * | -33% | * | * | * | * | * | -33% |
| Car | |||||||||
| 2004-08 average | 1 | 18 | 316 | 6 | 44 | 353 | 6 | 62 | 670 |
| 2009 | 0 | 22 | 258 | 3 | 40 | 290 | 3 | 62 | 548 |
| 2010 | 1 | 13 | 233 | 0 | 27 | 272 | 1 | 40 | 505 |
| 2011 prov. | 1 | 8 | 204 | 4 | 26 | 256 | 5 | 34 | 460 |
| % change on 2010 | * | * | -12% | * | * | -6% | * | * | -9% |
| on 04-08 average | * | * | -35% | * | * | -28% | * | -45% | -31% |
| Bus/Coach | |||||||||
| 2004-08 average | 0 | 3 | 68 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 3 | 88 |
| 2009 | 0 | 2 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 53 |
| 2010 | 0 | 4 | 44 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 0 | 7 | 54 |
| 2011 prov. | 0 | 3 | 42 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 53 |
| % change on 2010 | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | -2% |
| on 04-08 average | * | * | -38% | * | * | * | * | * | -39% |
| Other | |||||||||
| 2004-08 average | 1 | 9 | 39 | 0 | 3 | 23 | 1 | 13 | 62 |
| 2009 | 0 | 5 | 21 | 0 | 3 | 29 | 0 | 8 | 50 |
| 2010 | 0 | 3 | 25 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 30 |
| 2011 prov. | 0 | 3 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 22 |
| % change on 2010 | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * |
| on 04-08 average | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | -64% |
| All child casualties | |||||||||
| 2004-08 average | 7 | 267 | 1,593 | 8 | 59 | 426 | 15 | 325 | 2,019 |
| 2009 | 2 | 201 | 1,125 | 3 | 52 | 348 | 5 | 253 | 1,473 |
| 2010 | 3 | 188 | 1,074 | 1 | 35 | 304 | 4 | 223 | 1,378 |
| 2011 prov. | 3 | 170 | 1,025 | 4 | 33 | 290 | 7 | 203 | 1,315 |
| % change on 2010 | * | -10% | -5% | * | * | -5% | * | -9% | -5% |
| on 04-08 average | * | -36% | -36% | * | -44% | -32% | * | -38% | -35% |
1 Figures for 2010 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
