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386 motorcyclists were killed on Britain's roads in 2025, up 14% on 2024.

Source: DfT STATS19 road casualty statistics, 2025 final release. See the data

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All twelve facts

  • 386 motorcyclists were killed on Britain's roads in 2025, up 14% on 2024.

    Source: DfT STATS19 road casualty statistics, 2025 final release

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  • June is the worst month to be a rider. 3,218 motorcyclists were killed or seriously injured in June across 2021 to 2025, against 1,315 in January.

    Source: DfT STATS19, 2021 to 2025

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  • The single worst hour of the week for riders is Thursday between 5pm and 6pm, with 442 motorcyclists killed or seriously injured over five years.

    Source: DfT STATS19, 2021 to 2025

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  • 74% of motorcyclist casualties happen in daylight and 76% happen on a dry road. Riders are not mostly getting hurt in the dark and the rain.

    Source: DfT STATS19, 2021 to 2025

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  • Of every 100 motorcyclist casualties on a 60mph road, 6.33 died. On a motorway the figure is 4.98. The rural single carriageway is the deadliest road type in Britain for riders.

    Source: DfT STATS19, 2021 to 2025

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  • Rural roads hold 31% of motorcyclist casualties and 72% of motorcyclist deaths.

    Source: DfT STATS19, 2021 to 2025

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  • A motorcyclist casualty is more than twice as likely to be fatal away from a junction as at one. Junctions are where riders get hurt, open road is where they die.

    Source: DfT STATS19, 2021 to 2025

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  • The A38 is the road with the most motorcyclists killed or seriously injured in Britain, with 48 in 2025.

    Source: DfT STATS19, 2025 final release

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  • The A4 is the worst road in Britain for cyclists, with 36 killed or seriously injured in 2025.

    Source: DfT STATS19, 2025 final release

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  • Between 2021 and 2025 motorcyclist deaths in Britain rose 25% while cyclist deaths fell 29%. Two groups of vulnerable road users on the same roads, moving in opposite directions.

    Source: DfT STATS19, 2021 to 2025

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  • Motorcyclists are hurt most on a Friday. Cyclists are hurt most on a Thursday, and their safest day by a distance is Sunday.

    Source: DfT STATS19, 2021 to 2025

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  • 79 cyclists were killed on Britain's roads in 2025, the lowest total of the last five years.

    Source: DfT STATS19, 2025 final release

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Where these come from

Every fact on this page is taken from our own analysis of the Department for Transport's STATS19 data, the police record of every road casualty reported in Great Britain. The working is published in full on our research pages, along with the data itself under the Open Government Licence.