Trends & Patterns
Who is dying on Irish roads, where, and when — structural patterns drawn from our incident records for this year.
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Deaths this year
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At night
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Single-vehicle
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On the weekend
Structural factors are read from news coverage of each collision — the road user who died, whether it was a single-vehicle crash, the road type, and the time. These are observed facts, not a breakdown of blame or cause (we do not attribute drink, speed or fault). Methodology.
Who died, by road user
Role of the person killed
Our share vs. the official RSA breakdown
Percentage of deaths by road user
Where — by road type
Motorways are consistently the safest roads
When — by day of week
Weekend days shown in red
By time of day
Hour the collision occurred (where reported)
By age of the person who died
Where an age was reported
How to read this. These patterns come from media reports and describe the person who died
in each collision. Because coverage is uneven, our shares can differ from the official Road Safety Authority
breakdown — we tend to over-represent drivers and under-represent pedestrians. The RSA comparison above shows
that gap directly. Figures are for the current year; they are indicative, not a statistical return.