Statistic series

Comparative trends in road deaths and traffic in mainland France

The file includes two tables :

A table comparing traffic from 1948 to 2024 (provisional):

• The number of people who died instantly or within 30 days of the accident

In 2005, the definition of the killed "person who died instantly or within 6 days after the accident" changed and became "person who died immediately or within 30 days after the accident" and the definition of hospitalized injured "victim admitted as a patient in a hospital for more than 6 days” becomes “victim admitted as a patient in a hospital for more than 24 hours”.

This change in definition creating a break in the series in the count of deaths, an estimate of the number of deaths at 30 days from the number of deaths at 6 days, by applying the increasing coefficients (1.09 from 1948 to 1992, 1.057 from 1993 to 2003 and 1.069 in 2004), displays the long series from 1948 to 2024 (provisional).

• The billions of kilometres vehicles travelled until 2022 (2023 data available starting September 2024);
• The ratio of 30-day fatalities per billion km travelled until 2022

A table of deaths on the spot from 1924 to 1938 and deaths at 30 days from 1948 to 2024 (provisional).

BAAC long series

- Monthly number of accidents and injured from 1970 to 2024p, in France mainland

- Monthly number of fatalities from 1954 to 2024p, in France mainland

- Number of fatalities per year by age group :

• from 1970 to 2024p with the brackets: Age ind, 0-14 years, 15-17 years, 18-24 years, 25-44 years, 45-64 years, 65-74 years, 75 years and over
• from 1967 to 2024p with the brackets: Age ind, 0-14 years, 15-17 years, 18-24 years, 25-44 years, 45-64 years, 65-74 years, 75 years and +)

- Number of fatalities per year by user category (pedestrian, bicycle, moped, motorcycle, passenger vehicle, commercial vehicle, public transport, other), this list is limited for the provisional 2024 data

- Accident indicators in the French overseas departments and regions from 2005 to 2023, this list is limited for the provisional 2024 data

- Accident indicators in the French overseas collectivities and New Caledonia from 2010 to 2023, this list is limited for the provisional 2024 data

- Summary tables for mainland France (2000 to 2024p), Overseas counties (2005 to 2024p) and Overseas territories (2010 to 2024p)

Accidents involving alcohol

Both files are built on the same model, one based on the old information system until 2017, and the other based on the new information system from 2019 to 2023.

The breakdown for each year is as follows:

• the number of accidents involving bodily injury (including fatal accidents) in which at least one driver tested positive for alcohol (i.e. was over the legal limit);
• the number of accidents involving bodily injury (including fatal accidents) in which all the drivers tested negative for alcohol;
• the number of accidents involving bodily injury (including fatal accidents) where the blood alcohol level of the drivers is known;
• the proportion of bodily injury accidents (including fatal accidents) involving alcohol;
• the number of fatal accidents in which at least one driver was positive for alcohol (above the legal limit);
• the number of fatal accidents in which all the drivers tested negative for alcohol;
• the number of fatal accidents in which the blood alcohol level of the drivers was known;
• the proportion of fatal accidents involving alcohol.