Vehicles on the roads (GB)
38.7m licenced vehicles
- Cars ~ 31.9m
- Light Good Vehicles (vans) ~ 4.1m
- Heavy Goods Vehicles (trucks) ~ 0.5m
- Motorcycles ~1.25m
- Bus and Coaches ~0.15m
- Other ~ 0.7m
See Vehicle Licensing Statistics: Annual 2019
New registrations in 2019 (GB)
- 9m vehicles registered for first time
- Diesel cars down 18% on 2018
- 38k Battery electric (BEVs)
- 112k Hybrid Electric (HEVs)
- 35k Plugin Hybrid Electric (PHEVs)
- BEVs up 141% in 2019 vs 2018
- HEVs up 30%
- PHEVs down 17%
Business drivers (2017/18)
- 890,000 company car drivers ~ down 5.3% on 16/17 + 2m other co. owned
- 4m van users (private and company)
- 310,000 truck drivers
- Shortage of 59k drivers (2019)
- Grey Fleet – 14m people (est) use their private vehicles at work
Road Casualties (worldwide)
- 35m people killed on roads a year
- 1 work-related death every 90 seconds
- Europe: 25,000 lives lost in 2016, of which 40% were work-related
- Britain: Brake say nearly one in three (31%) deaths involved someone driving for work.
Road Casualties (Great Britain)
- 1,784 died on GB roads in 2018
- Each fatality costs around £2.2m in lost output, medical & ambulance and human costs
- 160,597 reported casualties
Of those who died in 2018,
- 44% were car occupants
- 52% were vulnerable road users
- 26% pedestrians
- 20% motorcyclists
- 6% cyclists
- 4% other road users
Where did the deaths happen?
- 36% urban roads
- 58% rural roads
- 6% motorways
Where did the casualties happen?
- 63% urban roads
- 32% rural roads
- 5% motorways
See Reported road casualties in Great Britain 2018 annual report
Number of UK Fleets by size (cars & vans)
- 1-49: 135,000
- 50-99: 1,500
- 100-149: 500
- 150+: 1,000
- Top 200 fleets: 2,500 vehicles (average)
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