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Since 2012, some police forces have begun providing STATS19 data through injury-based reporting systems, most commonly CRaSH (the Collision Recording and SHaring system).

Within injury-based reporting systems, casualty severity data is determined by the most severe injury sustained. This has provided two new variables that have not previously been published, most severe injury sustained and a more detailed casualty severity variable which breaks down the serious category.

This factsheet presents an initial analysis of these additional variables, for 2019 and 2020, and separately for 2021 when the coverage of police forces using injury-based reported was slightly different. We welcome feedback on this factsheet and would any interest in further analysis of the injury data.

While this data is considered sensitive at the record level, it can be requested from the team via the contact details below subject to completion of an application for sensitive data and agreement of an end user licence.