AVZ Briefing – Reported Hit and run casualties in London – Dec 2023

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Key points

In hit and run collisions in London:

• The number of people killed rose to 16 last year, with 804 reported seriously injured (over two a day).
• Killed and seriously injured (KSI) rose 10% in the last year.
• Pedestrians account for most of those killed.
• Pedestrians and cyclists regularly account for seven out of 10 KSIs, with cyclists outnumbering pedestrians seriously injured in both 2020 and 2021.
• In 2022, hit and run collisions accounted for 21% of reported KSIs and 28% of reported slight injuries. So over one in four slight injuries and one in five KSIs were due to hit and runs.

Action Vision Zero urges the police to ensure these crashes are investigated thoroughly with outcomes published to reassure victims and the public that offenders are caught. See our Remain and Report campaign for our wider work on hit and run collisions.

Table 1: Hit and runs – Killed
	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
Pedestrian	11	10	12	7	7
Pedal Cyclist	2	2	1	2	2
Motor Cyclist	0	2	0	0	5
Car Occupant	3	0	1	1	1
Bus Occupant	0	0	0	0	0
Van Occupant	0	0	0	0	0
HGV Occupant	0	0	0	0	0
Other Vehicle Occupant	1	0	0	2	1
Total	17	14	14	12	16
Pedestrian and Cyclist share	76%	86%	93%	75%	56%
Source: DfT (2023)
Table 2: Hit and runs – Killed/Seriously Injured
	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
Pedestrian	309	332	211	256	301
Pedal Cyclist	170	216	226	280	288
Motor Cyclist	126	132	87	121	130
Car Occupant	107	86	53	65	65
Bus Occupant	11	12	8	7	11
Van Occupant	6	5	0	1	3
HGV Occupant	0	0	1	0	0
Other Vehicle Occupant	4	0	12	29	24
Total	733	783	598	759	822
Pedestrian and Cyclist share	65%	70%	73%	71%	72%

Source: DfT (2023)

Table 3: Hit and runs – Reported Slightly Injured

	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
Pedestrian	1,285	1,052	1,074	1,423	1,401
Pedal Cyclist	1,523	1,558	1,448	1,333	1,241
Motor Cyclist	1,432	1,237	1,051	884	658
Car Occupant	2,573	2,696	2,776	3,354	2,989
Bus Occupant	99	128	77	157	159
Van Occupant	111	109	119	122	120
HGV Occupant	12	15	13	8	15
Other Vehicle Occupant	58	97	57	24	14
Total	7,093	6,892	6,615	7,305	6,597
Pedestrian and Cyclist share	40%	38%	38%	38%	40%

Source: DfT (2023)

Table 4:  Share of Total reported casualties (2022)

	Hit and run	Total	% Hit and run
Killed	16	102	16%
Killed/Seriously Injured	822	3,961	21%
Slight	6,597	23,246	28%
Total casualties	7,435	27,207	27%

Source: DfT (2023), TfL (2023)

Sources

DfT (2023), Casualties in hit and run collisions by police force 2018-2022 TfL (2023), Transport for London – Casualties in Greater London during 2022 – Data Release