Facts and Statistics

• Between a 25 and 33% of all serious and fatal road traffic accidents involve someone who was working at the time.
• Company car drivers are TWICE as likely to have an accident, than domestic drivers.
• 3500 road accident deaths occur each year. That’s 10 per day. Nearly 1000 of these deaths are work related.
• The Health & Safety Executive has reported that over 77,000 injuries per year to employees are caused in Road Accidents while the employee was at work.
• Over 75% of deaths at work are caused by Road Accidents.
• 60% of company cars are involved in an insurance claim each year.
• There are over 2.5million Company owned vehicles in the UK. Yet in 2004 less than 1 in 10 companies gave their drivers any additional information or training on how to reduce their road risk.
• A company car driver covering 25,000 business miles per year (That’s only 500 miles per week) is as likely to be killed in a road accident as a construction worker is on a building site.
• 29% of all miles travelled by company vans are in connection with the construction industry.
• 19% are in connection with the retail industry.
• 35% is in connection with the collection and delivery of goods.
• 30% of vans are in use during the peak travelling periods of between 7am to 9am and 4pm to 6pm.
• 32% of travel time is between home and job and 19% going between jobs.
• Workplace Transport accidents are the second biggest cause of fatalities in the workplace.
• It is estimated that 10% of company car drivers are using vehicles with driving licences that are not fully valid or out have out of date information.
• Approximately 35% of all journey miles covered in the UK are driven by vehicles for work related purposes.
• More and more insurance companies are insisting that company fleets have an accident risk management strategy in place before they will consider providing cover.