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Road deaths in 2013 were at their lowest level since the national records began in 1926 according to the Department for Transport's new Reported Road Casualties Annual report.
The figure decreased by 2% compared to 2012 to 1713 deaths in 2013. This is half as many as in 2000.
The report also reveals the total number of people seriously injured in road accidents decreased by 6% to 21,657 compared to 2012.
In total, there were 183,670 road accident casualties in 2013 - 6% down on the 2012 figure. The report claimed this figure has decreased steadily since 2000.
Road safety charity Brake declared the figures needs to decrease quicker than the present rate, and claimed that stricter guidelines would help this.
"Since 2010, progress has stalled dramatically [on UK road casualties falling]. At this rate, it will be many more decades before we reach the only acceptable number of casualties on our roads, and that number is zero," said Julie Townsend, deputy chief executive at Brake.
"The government needs to take far more proactive action to drive casualties down faster, including a zero-tolerance drink drive limit, a 20mph default urban speed limit, and graduated driver licensing to tackle young driver crashes."
The IAM echoed Brake's reaction: "We welcome the overall decrease in road deaths although the long term trends show improvements are slowing down," said IAM director of policy of research Neil Greig.
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