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In 2014, 193 people were killed on Irish roads. This represents an increase of 2.7% on the 2013 figure.
Data on road traffic injuries and detailed data on road fatalities is now available up to 2013 in tables 4.5 to 4.14.

X-axis label	Car users	Pedestrians
2009	7.114	1.075
2010	5.814	0.923
2011	4.93	0.93
2012	5.402	1.009
2013	4.545	0.895
2014	4.512	1.134

Road safety and road lengths

Table 4.1 Number of road deaths and number of vehicles under current licence, 2008-2014
							Number
	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014

Number of road deaths	279	238	212	186	162	188	193¹
Number of vehicles licensed	2,497,568	2,467,660	2,416,387	2,425,156	2,403,223	2,482,557	2,515,322

¹ Provisional data
Sources: Department of Transport, Tourism & Sport, An Garda Síochána and Road Safety Authority

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Table 4.2 Road fatalities classified by month of year, 2008 - 2014
							Number
Month	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014 ¹

January	25	18	15	21	10	19	16
February	32	15	14	18	13	14	13
March	20	24	12	15	12	15	15
April	19	20	19	8	16	12	14
May	19	28	28	11	13	17	18
June	28	15	11	15	26	13	18
July	26	19	21	18	15	18	18
August	28	20	19	16	12	19	15
September	19	14	13	13	10	17	11
October	22	22	36	15	15	13	18
November	22	25	14	18	8	15	20
December	19	18	10	18	12	16	17

Total	279	238	212	186	162	188	193

¹ Provisional data
Sources: Department of Transport, Tourism & Sport, An Garda Síochána and Road Safety Authority

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Table 4.3 Number of persons killed classified by road user type, 2009 - 2014
						Number
Road user type	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014¹

Pedestrians	40	44	47	29	31	41
Pedal cyclists	7	5	9	8	5	13
Motor cyclists	25	17	18	19	26	24
Car users	146	130	95	89	107	105
PSV users	1	1	0	1	0	0
Goods vehicle users	17	10	17	12	14	6
Other or unknown	2	5	0	4	5	4

Total	238	212	186	162	188	193

¹ Provisional data
Source: Road Safety Authority

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Table 4.4 Number of persons injured classified by road user type, 2009 - 2014
						Number
Road user type	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014¹

Pedestrians	1,075	923	930	1,009	895	1,134
Pedal cyclists	363	399	395	630	638	636
Motor cyclists	442	391	324	338	273	287
Car users	7,114	5,814	4,930	5,402	4,545	4,512
Other road users²	748	743	656	563	529	744

Total	9,742	8,270	7,235	7,942	6,880	7,313

¹ Provisional data
² PSV, Goods vehicle and other or unknown road users
Source: Road Safety Authority

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Table 4.5 Number of persons killed and injured by county, 2009 - 2013
										Number
County	Persons killed					Persons injured
County	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013

Leinster
Carlow	3	5	3	2	2	128	120	99	67	89
Dublin	31	20	11	12	19	2,028	1,761	1,607	1,974	1,410
Kildare	10	11	15	1	15	363	357	268	260	337
Kilkenny	5	6	6	3	4	208	144	133	176	119
Laois	5	9	1	0	2	185	135	119	118	95
Longford	2	2	2	5	2	85	106	67	100	86
Louth	5	8	6	7	4	467	306	249	343	294
Meath	12	6	4	14	9	429	363	279	296	227
Offaly	4	4	4	7	5	190	151	107	128	135
Westmeath	4	7	6	5	5	191	162	127	138	105
Wexford	4	9	5	9	7	294	257	232	283	201
Wicklow	4	5	3	3	6	343	263	255	264	183

Munster
Clare	7	4	2	2	2	267	225	172	194	182
Cork	21	18	27	21	18	933	867	773	742	707
Kerry	12	11	7	7	14	345	254	249	239	250
Limerick	22	18	15	5	6	487	393	429	385	401
Tipperary	12	6	11	4	12	336	312	243	237	248
Waterford	3	5	7	3	2	243	211	189	201	195

Connacht
Galway	23	6	13	19	13	640	573	437	505	467
Leitrim	0	3	1	0	2	84	75	87	71	40
Mayo	10	7	12	7	6	275	280	207	269	216
Roscommon	4	9	5	3	4	206	166	158	146	119
Sligo	7	3	3	4	5	189	142	131	133	149

Ulster (part of)
Cavan	9	7	5	10	3	221	197	174	161	163
Donegal	14	19	6	7	13	490	361	314	390	355
Monaghan	5	4	6	2	8	115	89	130	122	107

Total	238	212	186	162	188	9,742	8,270	7,235	7,942	6,880

Source: Road Safety Authority

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Table 4.6 Number of female casualties classified by road user type and age, 2013
													Number and rate
Age groups	Total				Pedestrians				Pedal cyclists				Motor cyclists
Age groups	Killed	Injured	Total	%	Killed	Injured	Total	%	Killed	Injured	Total	%	Killed	Injured	Total	%

0-5	3	79	82	2.9	1	21	22	5.6	0	1	1	0.7	0	0	0	0.0
6-9	1	70	71	2.5	0	22	22	5.6	0	6	6	4.1	0	0	0	0.0
10-14	0	99	99	3.5	0	26	26	6.6	0	11	11	7.6	0	0	0	0.0
15-17	3	106	109	3.8	2	25	27	6.9	0	5	5	3.4	0	0	0	0.0
18-20	1	216	217	7.6	0	27	27	6.9	0	5	5	3.4	0	0	0	0.0
21-24	6	285	291	10.2	0	28	28	7.1	0	10	10	6.9	0	4	4	20.0
25-34	5	598	603	21.2	0	47	47	11.9	1	45	46	31.7	0	5	5	25.0
35-44	4	460	464	16.3	1	36	37	9.4	0	23	23	15.9	0	3	3	15.0
45-54	5	373	378	13.3	0	42	42	10.7	0	23	23	15.9	1	3	4	20.0
55-64	3	242	245	8.6	2	33	35	8.9	0	12	12	8.3	1	3	4	20.0
65 and over	15	262	277	9.7	7	71	78	19.8	0	1	1	0.7	0	0	0	0.0
Unknown	0	13	13	0.5	0	3	3	0.8	0	2	2	1.4	0	0	0	0.0

Total	46	2,803	2,849	100.0	13	381	394	100.0	1	144	145	100.0	2	18	20	100.0

Age groups	Car drivers				Car passengers				Total car users				Other road users
Age groups	Killed	Injured	Total	%	Killed	Injured	Total	%	Killed	Injured	Total	%	Killed	Injured	Total	%

0-5	0	0	0	0.0	1	53	54	6.2	1	53	54	2.5	1	4	5	5.1
6-9	0	0	0	0.0	0	39	39	4.4	0	39	39	1.8	1	3	4	4.0
10-14	0	0	0	0.0	0	61	61	6.9	0	61	61	2.8	0	1	1	1.0
15-17	0	3	3	0.2	1	71	72	8.2	1	74	75	3.4	0	2	2	2.0
18-20	1	73	74	5.6	0	102	102	11.6	1	175	176	8.0	0	9	9	9.1
21-24	4	139	143	10.9	2	94	96	10.9	6	233	239	10.9	0	10	10	10.1
25-34	2	343	345	26.3	1	137	138	15.7	3	480	483	22.0	1	21	22	22.2
35-44	3	296	299	22.8	0	84	84	9.6	3	380	383	17.5	0	18	18	18.2
45-54	2	214	216	16.5	1	80	81	9.2	3	294	297	13.6	1	11	12	12.1
55-64	0	115	115	8.8	0	68	68	7.7	0	183	183	8.4	0	11	11	11.1
65 and over	6	110	116	8.8	2	75	77	8.8	8	185	193	8.8	0	5	5	5.1
Unknown	0	2	2	0.2	0	6	6	0.7	0	8	8	0.4	0	0	0	0.0

Total	18	1,295	1,313	100.0	8	870	878	100.0	26	2,165	2,191	100.0	4	95	99	100.0

Note: Collisions omitted where gender of casualty is not specified
Source: Road Safety Authority

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Table 4.7 Number of male casualties classified by road user type and age, 2013
													Number and rate
Age groups	Total				Pedestrians				Pedal cyclists				Motor cyclists
Age groups	Killed	Injured¹	Total¹	%	Killed	Injured	Total	%	Killed	Injured	Total	%	Killed	Injured	Total	%
0-5	1	88	89	2.2	0	29	29	5.6	0	1	1	0.2	0	0	0	0.0
6-9	0	91	91	2.3	0	43	43	8.3	0	7	7	1.5	0	0	0	0.0
10-14	1	149	150	3.8	0	49	49	9.5	0	31	31	6.6	0	2	2	0.7
15-17	1	167	168	4.2	0	29	29	5.6	0	25	25	5.3	0	2	2	0.7
18-20	12	332	344	8.7	1	38	39	7.5	0	23	23	4.9	1	7	8	3.0
21-24	17	419	436	11.0	0	28	28	5.4	0	37	37	7.8	0	25	25	9.3
25-34	34	825	859	21.7	2	82	84	16.2	0	101	101	21.4	13	79	92	34.3
35-44	19	663	682	17.2	3	55	58	11.2	1	116	117	24.8	4	59	63	23.5
45-54	13	465	478	12.1	4	36	40	7.7	0	70	70	14.8	4	48	52	19.4
55-64	13	292	305	7.7	3	40	43	8.3	0	37	37	7.8	1	16	17	6.3
65 and over	31	285	316	8.0	5	58	63	12.2	3	12	15	3.2	1	4	5	1.9
Unknown	0	40	40	1.0	0	12	12	2.3	0	8	8	1.7	0	2	2	0.7

Total	142	3,816	3,958	100.0	18	499	517	100.0	4	468	472	100.0	24	244	268	100.0

Age groups	Car drivers				Car passengers				Total car users				Other road users
Age groups	Killed	Injured	Total	%	Killed	Injured	Total	%	Killed	Injured	Total	%	Killed	Injured	Total	%
0-5	0	0	0	0.0	1	53	54	6.3	1	53	54	2.4	0	5	5	1.2
6-9	0	0	0	0.0	0	39	39	4.5	0	39	39	1.7	0	2	2	0.5
10-14	0	1	1	0.1	0	60	60	7.0	0	61	61	2.7	1	6	7	1.6
15-17	0	15	15	1.1	0	89	89	10.3	0	104	104	4.6	1	7	8	1.9
18-20	4	121	125	8.8	6	120	126	14.6	10	241	251	11.0	0	23	23	5.4
21-24	10	160	170	12.0	3	131	134	15.6	13	291	304	13.4	4	38	42	9.9
25-34	16	284	300	21.2	2	166	168	19.5	18	450	468	20.6	1	113	114	26.8
35-44	6	280	286	20.2	2	70	72	8.4	8	350	358	15.7	3	83	86	20.2
45-54	4	196	200	14.1	0	41	41	4.8	4	237	241	10.6	1	74	75	17.6
55-64	5	130	135	9.5	0	29	29	3.4	5	159	164	7.2	4	40	44	10.3
65 and over	16	158	174	12.3	6	36	42	4.9	22	194	216	9.5	0	17	17	4.0
Unknown	0	8	8	0.6	0	7	7	0.8	0	15	15	0.7	0	3	3	0.7

Total	61	1,353	1,414	100.0	20	841	861	100.0	81	2,194	2,275	100.0	15	411	426	100.0

Note: Collisions omitted where gender of casualty is not specified
Source: Road Safety Authority

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Table 4.8 Number of traffic collisions and casualties classified by month of year, 2013
							Number and rate
Month	Collisions				Casualties
Month	Fatal	Injury	Total	%	Killed	Injured	Total	%

January	18	427	445	8.9	19	623	642	9.1
February	13	341	354	7.1	14	491	505	7.1
March	14	349	363	7.3	15	523	538	7.6
April	12	328	340	6.8	12	452	464	6.6
May	14	377	391	7.9	17	533	550	7.8
June	13	408	421	8.5	13	587	600	8.5
July	18	446	464	9.3	18	677	695	9.8
August	17	398	415	8.3	19	600	619	8.8
September	16	419	435	8.7	17	601	618	8.7
October	13	455	468	9.4	13	635	648	9.2
November	15	420	435	8.7	15	560	575	8.1
December	16	429	445	8.9	16	598	614	8.7

Total	179	4,797	4,976	100.0	188	6,880	7,068	100.0

Source: Road Safety Authority

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Table 4.9 Number of fatal and injury collisions and casualties classified by day of week, 2013
							Number and rate
Day	Collisions				Casualties
Day	Fatal	Injury	Total	%	Killed	Injured	Total	%
Sunday	32	573	605	12.2	32	872	904	12.8
Monday	27	685	712	14.3	29	982	1,011	14.3
Tuesday	19	683	702	14.1	19	913	932	13.2
Wednesday	21	720	741	14.9	21	1,028	1,049	14.8
Thursday	24	720	744	15.0	25	1,006	1,031	14.6
Friday	32	748	780	15.7	35	1,095	1,130	16.0
Saturday	24	668	692	13.9	27	984	1,011	14.3

Total	179	4,797	4,976	100.0	188	6,880	7,068	100.0

Source: Road Safety Authority

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Table 4.10 Number of fatal and injury collisions and casualties classified by hour of day, 2013
						Number and rate
Hour beginning	Collisions				Casualties
Hour beginning	Fatal	Injury	Total	%	Killed	Injured	Total	%

12 midnight	6	97	103	2.1	6	145	151	2.1
1	7	69	76	1.5	7	103	110	1.6
2	9	70	79	1.6	10	122	132	1.9
3	4	66	70	1.4	5	93	98	1.4
4	5	39	44	0.9	5	51	56	0.8
5	3	39	42	0.8	3	55	58	0.8
6	5	82	87	1.7	5	116	121	1.7
7	4	120	124	2.5	4	145	149	2.1
8	5	266	271	5.4	5	325	330	4.7
9	4	248	252	5.1	4	324	328	4.6
10	5	188	193	3.9	5	258	263	3.7
11	9	266	275	5.5	9	362	371	5.2
12	8	297	305	6.1	9	408	417	5.9
13	9	295	304	6.1	9	442	451	6.4
14	12	302	314	6.3	16	445	461	6.5
15	9	313	322	6.5	9	457	466	6.6
16	11	347	358	7.2	11	492	503	7.1
17	13	369	382	7.7	13	526	539	7.6
18	10	370	380	7.6	10	486	496	7.0
19	9	295	304	6.1	10	450	460	6.5
20	8	240	248	5.0	8	380	388	5.5
21	14	164	178	3.6	14	260	274	3.9
22	6	138	144	2.9	6	225	231	3.3
23	4	117	121	2.4	5	210	215	3.0

Total	179	4,797	4,976	100.0	188	6,880	7,068	100.0

Source: Road Safety Authority

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Table 4.11 Number of traffic collisions and casualties in each county, 2013
								Number and rate
County and province	Pop (000's) 2011	Reg. motor vehicle (000's) 2013	Collisions				Casualties
County and province	Pop (000's) 2011	Reg. motor vehicle (000's) 2013	Fatal	Injury	Total	%	Fatal	Injury	Total	%

Leinster
Carlow	55	36	1	59	60	1.2	2	89	91	1.3
Dublin	1,273	596	18	1,138	1,156	23.2	19	1,410	1,429	20.2
Kildare	210	113	13	214	227	4.6	15	337	352	5.0
Kilkenny	95	55	4	84	88	1.8	4	119	123	1.7
Laois	81	41	2	80	82	1.6	2	95	97	1.4
Longford	39	22	2	47	49	1.0	2	86	88	1.2
Louth	123	58	4	193	197	4.0	4	294	298	4.2
Meath	184	98	9	158	167	3.4	9	227	236	3.3
Offaly	77	42	4	93	97	1.9	5	135	140	2.0
Westmeath	86	49	5	65	70	1.4	5	105	110	1.6
Wexford	145	89	7	132	139	2.8	7	201	208	2.9
Wicklow	137	77	6	134	140	2.8	6	183	189	2.7

Munster
Clare	117	70	2	113	115	2.3	2	182	184	2.6
Cork	519	305	18	526	544	10.9	18	707	725	10.3
Kerry	146	88	13	161	174	3.5	14	250	264	3.7
Limerick	192	107	5	282	287	5.8	6	401	407	5.8
Tipperary	158	98	12	168	180	3.6	12	248	260	3.7
Waterford	114	65	2	129	131	2.6	2	195	197	2.8

Connacht
Galway	251	138	13	301	314	6.3	13	467	480	6.8
Leitrim	32	19	2	32	34	0.7	2	40	42	0.6
Mayo	131	76	6	144	150	3.0	6	216	222	3.1
Roscommon	64	41	4	75	79	1.6	4	119	123	1.7
Sligo	65	37	4	86	90	1.8	5	149	154	2.2

Ulster (part of)
Cavan	73	41	3	95	98	2.0	3	163	166	2.3
Donegal	161	86	12	220	232	4.7	13	355	368	5.2
Monaghan	60	35	8	68	76	1.5	8	107	115	1.6

Total	4,587	2,482	179	4,797	4,976	100.0	188	6,880	7,068	100.0

Source: Road Safety Authority

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Table 4.12 Number of drivers of cars involved in fatal and injury collisions classified by age and gender, 2013
									Number and rate
Age group	Male				Female				Overall total	% of Total
Age group	Killed	Injured	Uninjured	Total	Killed	Injured	Uninjured	Total	Overall total	% of Total

0-5	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0.0
6-9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0
10-14	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0.0
15-17	0	15	22	37	0	3	2	5	42	0.8
18-20	4	121	106	231	1	73	38	112	343	6.3
21-24	10	160	171	341	4	139	81	224	565	10.4
25-34	16	284	409	709	2	343	263	608	1,317	24.3
35-44	6	280	339	625	3	296	239	538	1,163	21.5
45-54	4	196	279	479	2	214	176	392	871	16.1
55-64	5	130	180	315	0	115	93	208	523	9.7
65 and over	16	158	209	383	6	110	70	186	569	10.5
Unknown	0	8	5	13	0	2	3	5	18	0.3

Total	61	1,353	1,721	3,135	18	1,295	965	2,278	5,413	100.0

Source: Road Safety Authority

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Table 4.13 Number of cars and goods vehicles involved in fatal and injury collisions classified by driver's
country of residence, 2013
				Number and rate
	Fatal	Injury	Total	%

Cars
Ireland	108	4,171	4,279	96.4
N. Ireland	1	53	54	1.2
Britain	1	41	42	0.9
Other	2	64	66	1.5

Total cars	112	4,329	4,441	100.0

Goods vehicles
Ireland	31	556	587	94.4
N. Ireland	3	16	19	3.1
Britain	0	6	6	1.0
Other	2	8	10	1.6

Total goods vehicles	36	586	622	100.0

Source: Road Safety Authority

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Table 4.14 Number of users of cars involved in fatal and injury collisions classified by seat belt usage, 2013
				Number and rate
Seat belt usage	Killed	Injured	Uninjured	Total	%
Car drivers
Seat belt in use	27	1,461	1,240	2,728	49.1
Seat belt not in use	13	58	25	96	1.7
Unknown	35	1,043	1,201	2,279	41.0
Not stated	4	191	258	453	8.2

Total	79	2,753	2,724	5,556	100.0


Passengers (front seat)
Seat belt in Use	5	518	*	523	55.9
Seat belt not in Use	2	33	*	35	3.7
Unknown	11	327	*	338	36.1
Not stated	0	40	*	40	4.3
Total	18	918	0	936	100.0

* Not available
Source: Road Safety Authority

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Table 4.15 National road length in kilometres by carriageway type, 2010 - 2014
										Kilometres and rate
Carriageway type	2010		2011		2012		2013		2014

	km	%	km	%	km	%	km	%	km	%
Motorway	900	16.6	900	16.6	900	16.6	897	16.6	897	16.6
Dual carriageway/two plus one	324	6.0	324	6.0	324	6.0	298	6.0	298	6.0
Single	4,189	77.4	4,189	77.4	4,189	77.4	4,110	77.4	4,110	77.4

Total	5,413	100.0	5,413	100.0	5,413	100.0	5,305	100.0	5,305	100.0

Source: Transport Infrastructure Ireland

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Table 4.16 National route length in kilometres by carriageway type and local authority, 2014
				Kilometres
Local authority	Motorway	Dual carriageway	Single	Total

Carlow	24	-	54	78
Cavan	-	-	125	125
Clare	32	20	181	233
Cork City	-	13	6	19
Cork County	49	49	395	493
Donegal	-	6	298	304
Dublin City	6	0	-	6
Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown	17	9	6	32
Fingal	43	9	1	53
Galway City	-	9	8	17
Galway County	62	3	371	436
Kerry	-	11	413	424
Kildare	108	8	18	134
Kilkenny	68	17	112	197
Laois	67	-	102	169
Leitrim	-	7	49	56
Limerick City	-	1	-	1
Limerick County	27	8	156	191
Longford	-	0	97	97
Louth	40	9	49	98
Mayo	-	-	397	397
Meath	88	12	104	204
Monaghan	-	15	88	103
Offaly	15	-	101	116
Roscommon	21	1	226	248
Sligo	-	13	141	154
South Dublin	15	24	9	48
Tipperary North	73	-	104	177
Tipperary South	49	3	106	158
Waterford City	-	3	-	3
Waterford County	-	7	97	104
Westmeath	56	18	102	176
Wexford	22	-	142	164
Wicklow	16	22	53	91

Total	897	298	4,110	5,306

Source: Transport Infrastructure Ireland