Safe System at the heart of a Defence Road Safety Strategy

13 May 2025

In many countries year, more armed forces personnel are killed on the road than on operational deployments. In 2021 alone, in UK 9 members of the armed forces were killed in road traffic collisions.

In 2023 UK Ministry of Defence published its  Road Safety Strategy:

 • To enhance operational capability through a continued reduction in fatalities and serious injuries from land traffic collisions involving Defence vehicles and/or personnel, and to minimise minor injuries

• To achieve continued improvement to road safety incident and near-miss reporting

• To create a culture where the importance of safe behaviour by road users is recognised by all in Defence

• To reduce the financial cost to Defence of land traffic collisions