Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 91622
Motorways: Accidents
Tabled: 17 November 2025
Answered: 20 November 2025
Named DayQuestion
Jim McMahon
Labour (Co-op) — Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many (a) fatal accidents, (b) serious accidents, (c) minor accidents and (d) near misses were recorded on smart motorways for each year from 2015 to date.
Answer
Lilian GreenwoodNational Highways reports annually on smart motorway safety performance. The latest report was published in September 2025 using DfT’s most up to date validated STATS19 casualty dataset and annex A contains a breakdown of casualties by severity from 2015.
The latest analysis continues to show that overall, smart motorways remain our safest roads in terms of deaths or serious injuries, but we have been clear that we will not build any new ones.