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Road Safety
Understanding the human cost of road traffic collisions and the underlying factors that drive them. This module tracks historical trends and live metrics across Ireland's road network to identify vulnerabilities, map high-collision zones, and inform evidence-based civic safety strategies.
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Killed, injured and collision counts are different units. Injured mixes serious and minor unless a table says otherwise. RSA statistics hosted by CSO are provisional and revised annually.
The year-to-date count is An Garda Síochána's provisional fatality total, including public roads and some other public places. It is not an RSA public-road total and it is not added to persons killed on roads (ROA12). The full-year figure under that count is a Dashboard projection: the accepted year-to-date count multiplied by the days in that year, divided by the days from 1 January through the Garda reporting date, rounded to a whole person. It is not an official forecast and does not account for seasonality.
The map is TII injury collision rates on the national road network only (2022–2024 vintage) — a rate, not a collision count, and not local or regional roads. County killed counts (ROA15) remain in More measures; that map is a count, not exposure-adjusted.
RSA 2025 public-road fatalities are a separate estimated measure. Open RSA 2025 provisional in More measures below.
Definitions, sources and revisions: Methodology · Persons killed · County casualties · TII collision rate.
Injured counts, month and weekday profiles, TII segment rates, the RSA 2025 provisional series, and in-category compare. The map above is the geographic lens for this page.
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2026 road deaths reported
Provisional161
To 13 November 2026 · Garda provisional figures
An Garda Síochána, Roads Policing Statistics for Traffic Fatalities 2026
At this average daily rate, approximately 185 deaths over the full year.
Dashboard projectionSimple extrapolation from figures to 13 November 2026. Does not account for seasonality and is not an official forecast.
2025 Total Fatalities
Provisional185
Provisional
RSA Provisional Review of Fatalities 2025 (public roads). Provisional.
2024 Total Fatalities
Official171
Official (revised annually)
RSA/CSO ROA12, 2024. Official (revised annually).
Who is Affected
Ireland (State)·2025·Persons
RSA statistics hosted by CSO (ROA12). Provisional and revised annually.
Default cut is All road users. “All Car users” is a published parent — do not add it to pedestrians, cyclists or other leaves.
Killed is not injured and not a collision count.
Killed casualties. RSA statistics hosted by the CSO are provisional and revised annually.
Ireland (State)·2024·Persons
Demographic
Casualties by age and sex
RSA statistics hosted by CSO (ROA16). Explore shows Killed Casualties, not All Killed and Injured.
CSO publishes Male and Female only. The pyramid uses both sexes at the selected road-user cut; the time chart follows the Sex filter.
This is killed casualties, not all injuries.
When & Where
Ireland·2025·Persons
RSA Provisional Review of Fatalities 2025: deaths by speed limit of the road (public roads only). Same publication as the 185 extract. Estimated — not CSO ROA12.
Bands are the published text aggregates (80 km/h or greater = 54% of 183 known-limit deaths; 60 km/h = 34; remainder 50 km/h or below; 2 unknown). Finer chart bars were not transcribed.
The February 2025 cut of local rural limits to 60 km/h means that band includes roads that were 80 km/h before.
Estimated. Published text aggregates, not individual chart bars from an official microdata file.
Ireland (State)·2024·Collisions
Hour of day
Fatal and injury collisions by hour
RSA statistics hosted by CSO (ROA19). Live ROA19 is hour of day, not killed-by-year.
Hour labels are 12 midnight then 1–23. Profile uses clock order. Separate table from weekday.
Collisions, not fatalities. RSA/CSO ROA19.
The Data Gap: Tracking Root Causes
Official coronial data indicates that intoxication, inappropriate speed, driver distraction (mobile phones), and seatbelt non-compliance are the primary drivers of fatal collisions in Ireland. For example, recent Medical Bureau of Road Safety analysis shows approximately 35% of driver fatalities test positive for alcohol.
Note on Data Availability. Real-time, machine-readable API feeds for collision causation and toxicology are not currently published by the State. Enforcement data, including penalty points and Fixed Charge Notices, can be explored in the Crime & Justice module.
A geographic view of the national road network, highlighting locations with the highest concentration of collisions based on Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) network safety analysis.
Ireland (State)·2022-01-01·Per 100 million vehicle-km
Transport Infrastructure Ireland national-road injury collision rates for the frozen 2022–2024 vintage (published 20 January 2026). CC BY 4.0.
A rate (collisions per 100 million vehicle-km) is not a collision count. Coverage is the national network only — not local or regional roads.
This vintage uses AGS data current at the analysis date; later AGS revisions do not rewrite it. Do not treat older overlapping TII windows as a time series.
High collision location is a segment attribute (Twice Above Average Rate), not a second map layer.
Green is 0–5; amber from 5; dark amber/red from 40; red from 100 (per 100 million vehicle-km). County outlines pick a place for the charts above — not a killed choropleth.
Contains Tailte Éireann National Statutory Boundaries 2019 (Generalised 20m). CC BY 4.0. Contains Transport Infrastructure Ireland Collision Rates 2022–2024. CC BY 4.0.
Measures
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Ireland (State)
RSA 2025 provisional fatalities · Ireland (State) · 2025
Official values can be revised by source agencies; Dashboard mapping and calculation fixes are documented under revisions and corrections.
Add a second measure with the bubbles above the chart. Two series share one composed chart with separate vertical scales. No silent unit conversion.