Official Statistics: Matching STATS19 collision data to a road network: feasibility

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September 24, 2026 08:30

This report presents a summary of the Department’s work to assess the feasibility of linking (or ‘matching’) road injury collision location data to a road network, specifically the Ordnance Survey National Geographic Database (NGD) RoadLink network.

If successful, matching collision data to a network will help to support improvements to the published statistics, including:

improved validation of road-related variables in STATS19

scope for publications of additional information related to the roads on which collisions happen

ability to add further derived road-network related variables, such as a better classification of rural roads currently in development

In the longer term, routine linking of collisions to a network might allow a more consistent, network-defined basis for classification of which collisions are in scope of STATS19 reporting.

This report summarises initial work. It is anticipated to develop this further, with a view to including enhanced road-related analysis as part of the publication of 2026 casualty statistics in summer 2027.

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