Humberside Police Reveal East Riding Road Casualty Figures In Safety Push

Humberside Police have released new statistics detailing road deaths and traffic offences across the East Riding as part of their ongoing efforts to improve road safety.

Humberside Police say they are working hard to make the East Riding's roads safer following the publication of new statistics detailing collisions, fatalities, and driving offences in the area.

The force has highlighted the disproportionate number of fatal incidents occurring on rural routes across the East Riding, as well as identifying specific times when collisions are most likely to happen in towns such as Bridlington.

Data from the last four years shows a fluctuating but consistently high proportion of road deaths occurring within the East Riding compared to the wider Humberside Police force area.

In 2023, there were thirty-three road deaths across the force area, with eleven occurring in the East Riding. The following year saw twenty-five deaths, twelve of which were in the East Riding. In 2025, the total number of fatalities rose sharply to forty-two, with exactly half taking place in the East Riding. So far in 2026, the force has recorded twenty-three road deaths, with eleven of those occurring on East Riding roads.

Superintendent Gary Foster outlined the recent fatality figures and explained how the force is using data to target their patrols:

"I've got some figures here which just represent so 2023 33 road deaths 11 on the riding, 24 25 road deaths 12 riding 2025 42 road deaths, and 21 riding and 2026. We've had 22 deaths, well 23 now actually, of which 11 are riding. So, if you divide that by four, it's a good percentage of 50 to 60% of our road deaths are on easy riding, and usually on those rural routes. Bridlington, number of K I casualties over the last 16 months is 47. The most common day for that is a Sunday. The most common time for that is between 4:00 and 6:00 p.m. So, there's no real correlation. So, we know that the Sunday 4:00 to 6:00 p.m., if we're on one of those routes, the chances are we might improve driver behaviour, which is what we try to do."

In addition to monitoring collision hotspots, a dedicated team of fifty roads policing officers has been actively enforcing traffic laws across the East Riding.

Over a sixteen-month period, these officers have recorded thousands of infractions, ranging from driving without due care and attention to using a mobile phone behind the wheel.

The figures reveal that speeding remains the most common offence dealt with by the roads policing team, with seven hundred and seventy-one convictions recorded. Driving without insurance was the second highest, with five hundred and nineteen offences, closely followed by four hundred and sixty-seven seatbelt violations. Officers also secured three hundred convictions for driving without due care and one hundred and seventy-eight for mobile phone offences.

These numbers only account for incidents dealt with directly by the dedicated roads policing officers, and do not include the substantial number of speeding motorists caught by automated safe road cameras.

Superintendent Gary Foster provided a breakdown of the recent convictions and emphasised that while enforcement is ongoing, driver education remains a vital component in reducing casualties:

"East Riding wise, due care convictions by the roads policing team was 300, mobile phone 178, no insurance 519, seatbelts 467, and speed 771. So, they are just the offenses that the 50 roads policing officers have, have dealt with in the East Riding for that 16-month period without the considerable number of speed and offenders that are caught by safe road but they're much more significant. So, I hope that reassures a lot of work going on by the roads policing team, and, but our aim to reduce, and, road casualties and fatalities. And, we are still and not where we need to be in terms of that and want to improve that and education is the key bit of that."

Humberside Police are continuing their efforts to engage with motorists and improve driving standards, with the ultimate goal of bringing the number of road casualties and fatalities down across the East Riding's rural network.