Useful links - Accident statistics and research


Our sister website, Making the Link, has data and statistics on the most common causes of childhood accidents, the number of children who die or are admitted to hospital as a result of accidents. Visit the child accident data and statistics section.

Former DTI Home And Leisure Accident Surveillance System (HASS & LASS) reports (Some are available on-line)

Analyses of HASS and LASS data or email infocentre@rospa.com

Fire Statistics - United Kingdom (2005)

Injury Observatory Britain and Ireland

Road Casualties Great Britain

Mortality Statistics: Injury And Poisoning, England and Wales

Scotland: Deaths 

Deaths in Northern Ireland (The Annual Report Of The Registrar General)

The website of the journal Injury Prevention

The Miskin Group comprises researchers in UK universities and the Child Accident Prevention Trust

The Association of Public Health Observatories has links to all Public Health Observatories (PHOs) in England.

The South West Public Health Observatory has detailed data on injuries throughout England.

Scotland's Information Services Division (ISD)