Road (Highways Safety) related deaths

PFD Category
Reports: 499 Areas: 68 Earliest: Aug 2013 Latest: 12 Feb 2026

80% response rate (above 62% average). 34% of classified responses show concrete action taken. Reports rose 56% from 32 (2023) to 50 (2024).

PFD Reports
82 results
Mark Burgess
Historic (No Identified Response)
2014-0069 24 Feb 2014 Blackburn, Hyndburn & Ribble Valley
Highways Agency
Concerns summary The M65 motorway's decommissioned lighting system meant drivers could not see debris in the unlit carriageway, directly causing multiple subsequent collisions and injuries.
Michael Telford
Historic (No Identified Response)
2014-0045 3 Feb 2014 Cumbria (North & West)
Cumbria County Council
Kuldip Singh Dhillon
Historic (No Identified Response)
2013-0254 8 Oct 2013 London (East)
Department for Transport
Concerns summary Widespread common practice of unrestrained palletised loads on vehicles poses significant safety risks, compounded by insufficient enforcement and auditing of transport regulations by the Department of Transport.
Rachael Dallison
Historic (No Identified Response)
2013-0205 16 Sep 2013 Staffordshire (South)
Commissioner for Transport Staffordshire County Council
Concerns summary The provided concerns text is too truncated to identify specific safety issues.
Matthew Thomas Hamilton
Historic (No Identified Response)
2013-0180 8 Aug 2013 Cumbria (North & West)
Cumbria County Council
Concerns summary A narrow footpath lacked a barrier, allowing children to emerge suddenly into traffic, compounded by restricted vision from a fence and shrubbery.
David George White
Historic (No Identified Response)
2013-0172 1 Aug 2013 South Yorkshire (East)
Regeneration and Environment
Michael James Thornton
Historic (No Identified Response)
2013-0170 1 Aug 2013 West Somerset
Somerset County Council Taunton Couthy Hall