{"id":263771,"date":"2025-07-14T08:38:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T08:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/263771\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T08:38:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T08:38:21","slug":"hundreds-injured-in-crashes-along-bristols-roads-last-year-as-15-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/263771\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds injured in crashes along Bristol’s roads last year as 15 die"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new map shows Britain’s deadliest places to driveA stock image of a crash<\/p>\n

Fifteen people were killed and more than 300 seriously injured on the roads of Bristol and the surrounding area last year – as a new map reveals Britain\u2019s deadliest places to drive<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Provisional casualty figures published by the Department for Transport show there were 1,633 fatalities on British roads in 2024, a slight 1% increase from the previous year.<\/p>\n

More than 29,500 people were killed or seriously injured, similar to 2023, and another 99,000 were slightly injured, a 4% fall.<\/p>\n

The largest number of fatalities was among drivers and passengers of cars (710), followed by pedestrians (413), and motorcyclists (343).<\/p>\n

There were vast differences across the nation in the number and severity of injuries caused by road traffic accidents.<\/p>\n

Last year, 15 people lost their lives on the roads of Bristol and the surrounding area, while another 306 people were seriously injured in road accidents.<\/p>\n

Including minor injuries, a total of 1,714 people were hurt on the roads around our area last year.<\/p>\n

Bristol suffered the most casualties last year. Seven people lost their lives, and another 175 suffered serious injuries. Overall, 955 people were hurt on the roads.<\/p>\n

In South Gloucestershire<\/a>, there were a total of 422 casualties of all severity, including four fatalities and 65 people who suffered serious injuries.<\/p>\n

In North Somerset<\/a>, there were fewer casualties overall (337), while a similar number of people were killed (four) or seriously injured (67) as in South Gloucestershire.<\/p>\n

You can see how it compares with the rest of the nation using our interactive map.<\/p>\n

Department for Transport figures show that three-quarters of all fatalities (76%) and three in five casualties of all severities were male.<\/p>\n

More than two in five fatalities were aged either between 17 and 29 (22%) or over 70 (22%).<\/p>\n

Nearly three in 10 casualties of all severities were aged between 17 and 29 (28%), more than any other age bracket.<\/p>\n

However, the figures do show that the roads are getting safer over time, even as vehicle use soars.<\/p>\n

Last year there were 97 fewer fatalities on the roads than there were in 2015. There were also 3,500 fewer people seriously hurt or killed, and nearly 28,000 fewer casualties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new map shows Britain’s deadliest places to driveA stock image of a crash Fifteen people were killed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,956,10299,9731,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-263771","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-north-somerset","13":"tag-south-gloucestershire","14":"tag-traffic-travel","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114850686796682577","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}