Rail safety
Source: data.gov.uk (2020-07-31)

Safety on the railways. A summary of safety on the rail network

Source agency: Office of Rail and Road

Designation: National Statistics

Language: English

Alternative title: Safety on the railways

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Rail safety

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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 (/media/1230/rail-safety-statistics-quality-report.pdf)and for information on any revisions, please see our Revisions log (/footer/revisions-log/).

Data and reports that include previous statistical releases on Rail safety can be found on the National Archives (https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20190603113708/https://orr.gov.uk/statistics/published-stats/previous-data).

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Latest statistical release

Rail safety, April 2024 to March 2025 (/media/fmlorhmw/rail-safety-2024-25.pdf)

Date published: 23 Oct 2025 Date next published: TBC

Key results
- There were 14 non-workforce fatalities (passenger or public) in the year April 2024 to March 2025: 11 fatalities (eight RIDDOR and three non-RIDDOR reportable) occurred on the mainline network and three passenger fatalities (two RIDDOR and one non-RIDDOR reportable) on the London Underground.
- There were two workforce fatalities across all the networks in the year April 2024 to March 2025, one on the mainline and the other on the non-mainline network.
- There were 22 people who died in accidents while trespassing in the year April 2024 to March 2025. They involved 17 trespass fatalities on the mainline, four on the London Underground and one on the non-mainline network. There were five fatalities at level crossings which involved pedestrians on the mainline.
- There were 368 suicide or suspected suicide attempts on the mainline, of which 293 were fatalities, the highest number recorded since that start of the time series in April 2002.
Previous statistical releases

2023-24
- Rail safety, April 2023 to March 2024 (/media/hizn3q3n/rail-safety-2023-24.pdf)
2022-23
- Rail safety, April 2022 to March 2023 (/media/ktvneim0/rail-safety-2022-23.pdf)
2021-22
- Rail safety, April 2021 to March 2022 (/media/2131/rail-safety-april-2021-to-march-2022.pdf)
2020-21
- Rail safety, April 2020 to March 2021 (/media/1999/rail-safety-2020-2021.pdf)
2019-20
- Rail safety, April 2019 to March 2020 (/media/1832/rail-safety-2019-20.pdf)
Data tables

Quarterly
- Table 5255: Signals passed at danger (SPADs) on the mainline (/statistics/health-and-safety/rail-safety/table-5255-signals-passed-at-danger-spads-on-the-mainline/)
Annual
- Table 5200: All fatalities and injuries (/statistics/health-and-safety/rail-safety/table-5200-all-fatalities-and-injuries/)
- Table 5204: Road rail interface fatalities (/statistics/health-and-safety/rail-safety/table-5204-road-rail-interface-fatalities/)
- Table 5206: Passenger and public assault (/statistics/health-and-safety/rail-safety/table-5206-passenger-and-public-assault/)
- Table 5250: Broken rails and buckled rails (/statistics/health-and-safety/rail-safety/table-5250-broken-rails-and-buckled-rails/)
- Table 5260: Train accident fatalities and number of incidents split by severity (/statistics/health-and-safety/rail-safety/table-5260-train-accident-fatalities-and-number-of-incidents-split-by-severity/)
- Table 5265: Train accidents with passenger or workforce fatalities (/statistics/health-and-safety/rail-safety/table-5265-train-accidents-with-passenger-or-workforce-fatalities/)
- Table 5270: Trespasser fatalities and injuries (/statistics/health-and-safety/rail-safety/table-5270-trespasser-fatalities-and-injuries/)
- Table 5275: Suicide or suspected suicide fatalities and injuries (/statistics/health-and-safety/rail-safety/table-5275-suicide-or-suspected-suicide-fatalities-and-injuries/)
- Table 5210: Workforce harm (/statistics/health-and-safety/rail-safety/table-5210-workforce-harm/)
- Table 5220: Non-workforce harm by location of incident (/statistics/health-and-safety/rail-safety/table-5220-non-workforce-harm-by-location-of-incident/)
- Table 5230: Non-workforce harm by cause (/statistics/health-and-safety/rail-safety/table-5230-non-workforce-harm-by-cause/)
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