Home to School Travel: Pupil Injuries in Road Traffic Collisions in Northern Ireland

The Home to School Travel bulletin provides official statistics on school pupils injured in road traffic collisions while travelling to or from school. It is produced by the Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland and was last updated on July 8, 2026. The dataset is designated as Official Statistics not designated as National Statistics.

Use Cases

• Assessing child road safety risks based on travel-to-school incidents.
• Evaluating the effectiveness of school travel safety policies based on injury statistics.
• Analyzing temporal or geographic patterns in pupil injuries during school commutes.

Strengths

• Data is designated as Official Statistics, suggesting a formal collection process.
• Specific focus on a defined population: school pupils travelling to or from school.
• Last update timestamp is precisely recorded as 2026-07-08 13:32:05.498995.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to its source, covering only Northern Ireland.

Provenance

Source

Department of the Environment, Northern Ireland

Collection Method

Likely compiled from official road traffic collision reports.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:05.498995; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Northern Ireland