Rail safety
Annual rail safety statistics on mainline rail, London Underground, and other non-mainline networks (trams, metros, other light rail, minor and heritage railways) reporting on fatalities and injuries to passengers, members of the public and workforce in Great Britain. It also covers train accidents and (annual and quarterly) number of signals passed at danger (SPADs). These incidents are reported to the Office of Rail and Road under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulation (RIDDOR).
For details on RIDDOR, the legal reporting requirements and how these statistics are compiled, please see our Rail safety quality and methodology report and for information on any revisions, please see our Revisions log.
Data and reports that include previous statistical releases on Rail safety can be found on the National Archives.
Our statistical practice is regulated by the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR).
If you have any questions or feedback on these statistics, please contact rail.stats@orr.gov.uk
Latest statistical release
Rail safety, April 2022 to March 2023
Date published: 28 Sept 2023
Date next published: 26 Sept 2024
Key results
- There were eight non-workforce fatalities (passenger or public) in the year April 2022 to March 2023: three occurred in mainline stations and two at the platform-train interface; two passenger fatalities at stations on the London Underground; and one fatality from a collision between a member of the public and a tram.
- There were two workforce fatalities in the year April 2022 to March 2023, same as the previous year. Both of these were road traffic collisions which occurred on the mainline.
- There were 11 people who died in accidents while trespassing in the year April 2022 to March 2023. They involved ten trespass fatalities on the mainline and one on the non-mainline. There were six fatalities at level crossings which involved four pedestrians and one motorcyclist on the mainline and a member of the public on a scooter at a footpath crossing on the non-mainline network. There were 300 suicide or suspected suicide attempts on the mainline, of which 236 were fatalities.
Previous statistical releases
Data tables
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Annual
- Table 5200 - All fatalities and injuries
- Table 5204 - Road rail interface fatalities
- Table 5206 - Passenger and public assault
- Table 5250 - Broken rails and buckled rails
- Table 5260 - Train accidents by severity
- Table 5265 - Train accidents with passenger or workforce fatalities
- Table 5270 - Trespasser fatalities and injuries
- Table 5275 - Suicide or suspected suicide fatalities and injuries
- Table 5210 - Workforce harm
- Table 5220 - Non-workforce harm by location of incident
- Table 5230 - Non-workforce harm by cause
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Quarterly