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Accidents per type of vehicle
Statbel, the Belgian statistical office, publishes today the version 2024 of the open data files on the vehicles involved in a traffic accident. These are vehicles that were registered with the Vehicle Registration Department (D.I.V.) at the time of the accident. The figures are also broken down by car segment (SUV, city car, sedan, multi-purpose vehicles,...).
- XLS files TF_VEHICLES_COLLISION : 2017 – 2018 – 2019 – 2020 – 2021 - 2022 - 2023 – 2024
- Methodological note including an explanation of the term "car segment"
- An XLS list of the variables used: LIST_VARIABLES_VEHICLES_COLLISION
Note
In 2024, 43,646 Belgian vehicles were involved in road traffic accidents, of which 42,934 could be identified via the DIV, or 98.4% of the total. This proportion remains broadly stable compared to 2023 (98.6%).
These open data do not replace the official accident and casualty figures published by Statbel every year. The purpose of these open data is mainly to show some technical characteristics of the cars involved and to give some information on the type of accident or collision involving them. Each line represents a vehicle found at the DIV involved in an accident, and not an accident per se. On the one hand because several vehicles can be involved in an accident, and on the other hand because these data only concern vehicles registered with the DIV, and not foreign vehicles involved in an accident on the Belgian territory.