100 children injured or killed on Birmingham's roads in 2023, new figures reveal
The stats, by road safety charity Brake, show 23 were seriously injured
100 children aged 0-7 were injured or killed in road accidents in Birmingham in 2023, according to new stats.
The figures, revealed by road safety charity Brake, show 23 were seriously injured and one was killed. 76 were slightly injured.
Across the West Midlands region as a whole, 312 children aged 0–7 were killed or injured on the roads, including two children who died and 57 who received serious injuries.
Brake has also revealed that, over the same period, the charity’s National Road Victim Service provided specialist emotional and practical support to more than 2,000 families across the UK.
The charity say at any point in time, they support over 700 road victim families, including parents, grandparents, siblings, friends and people who have witnessed a traumatic incident.
Many of the families supported have been involved in multi-fatality crashes, and around 7% of support cases involve the death of a child.
Ross Moorlock, Chief Executive Officer at Brake, said:
“We see, every day, the devastating effects of road crashes on families, through the work of our National Road Victim Service, which this month is supporting 60 families following the death of a child in a road crash.
"It’s heartbreaking to hear that nine young children are harmed on our roads every single day, and shocking that the number of children who have been killed or seriously injured in road crashes has risen in recent years.
“At Brake, we are doing everything we can to prevent road death and injury, and we will continue to campaign for the solutions that we know will make our journeys safer, whoever we are and however we travel.
"We call on the Government to issue its long-awaited Road Safety Strategy with urgency, with evidence-based measures to end road death and injury.”
We've approached the Department of Transport for comment.
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