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UK road accident statistics: 9.1 million crashes since 1979

Police in England, Scotland and Wales recorded 9,116,625 road collisions from 1979 to 2025, and 12,102,133 people were killed or injured in them. In 2025 there were 101,525, up 1% on 2024.

Look up the crash record of any council area, road, town, postcode district or accident hotspot, down to the single collision, and see which roads are closed right now.

Collisions
9,116,625
Injury crashes reported to police
Casualties
12,102,133
People killed or injured
Casualties per collision
1.33
Collisions in 2025
101,525
Up 1% on 2024
Areas
351
Plus 42 former districts
Years covered
47
1979 to 2025

Find crash data for your area, road, town or postcode

  • Areas

    351 areas

    Yearly figures, crash maps, accident hotspots and the busiest roads for each council area.

  • Roads

    4,923 roads

    Crash history for motorways, A roads and B roads, with the areas and towns each one runs through.

  • Towns

    2,851 towns and cities

    Collision figures, severity and the busiest roads for each town and city.

  • Postcode districts

    2,813 postcode districts

    Crash statistics for each postcode district, with the roads and towns it covers.

  • Accident hotspots

    12,033 hotspots

    The places where collisions cluster most, ranked busiest first.

  • Live road closures

    245 in force now

    Accidents, incidents and roadworks closing motorways and major A roads right now.

Fatal, serious and slight collisions in Great Britain

Of the 9,116,625 collisions from 1979 to 2025, 146,175 were fatal and 1,676,556 serious. They killed 158,807 people and seriously injured 1,953,328.

  • Fatal146,1751.6%
  • Serious1,676,55618%
  • Slight7,293,89480%

Road accidents by year, 2021 to 2025

From 2021 to 2025, police recorded between 100,927 and 106,004 collisions a year.

Collisions and casualties in Great Britain, 2021 to 2025
YearCollisionsCasualties
2025101,525127,883
2024100,927128,272
2023104,258132,977
2022106,004135,480
2021101,087128,209

Latest reported road crashes

The 5 most recent of the 9,116,625 recorded collisions, all on 31 December 2025.

Live road closures and incidents

245 road closures are in force on motorways and major A roads in England and Wales right now: 17 live incidents and 228 roadworks closures. These are the 6 newest, live incidents first.

Closure data as of 04:15 on Monday 28 September 2026, checked every 5 minutes.

Areas with the most road accidents, 1979 to 2025

Birmingham has recorded more collisions than any other council area since 1979: 163,817, with 215,975 casualties.

Council areas ranked by collisions, 1979 to 2025
RankAreaCollisionsCasualtiesFatalSerious
1stBirmingham163,817215,9752,01227,906
2ndLeeds117,596160,2051,92420,015
3rdWestminster101,118114,79460415,288
4thNorth Yorkshire100,304148,2732,78030,161
5thGlasgow City95,217118,7181,38221,113
6thManchester93,482123,4841,07611,554
7thLiverpool90,801127,1521,04512,259
8thBradford80,457109,9101,10612,966
9thCornwall78,835109,0981,46614,892
10thCity of Edinburgh74,53890,16582215,096

What the UK road accident data covers

A page for every crash

Each of the 9,116,625 collisions police recorded from 1979 to 2025 has its own page: the date and time, the road and junction, the light, weather and road surface, every vehicle involved and every person hurt, with the collisions nearest to it.

Areas, roads, towns and postcode districts

Each crash counts towards the council area it happened in on today’s boundaries, so a 1985 collision in Harrogate is part of the North Yorkshire figures. Harrogate and the other district councils abolished between 2019 and 2023 keep their own pages as well, drawn on their old boundaries.

Road pages such as the M5 follow the main road police recorded for each crash. Town pages cover 2,851 towns and cities, using the built-up areas mapped by Ordnance Survey, and postcode districts come from the nearest postcode to each crash.

Accident hotspots

Hotspots are built from crashes between 2001 and 2025. We find the spot with the most collisions within 700 metres, make it a hotspot, set those collisions aside and repeat until no spot has 62 or more. That leaves 12,033 accident hotspots, each named after its ward, council and nearest postcode.

Live road closures

Live road closures are listed road by road. The M5 closures page, for example, shows its live incidents, roadworks in force and the closures planned for the next 7 days, each on a map.

Questions about UK road accident statistics

From STATS19, the report police forces in England, Scotland and Wales make of every injury collision on a public road that is reported to them. The Department for Transport collects the reports and publishes them as open data under the Open Government Licence, covering each crash, the vehicles involved and the people hurt. Live road closures come from National Highways and Traffic Wales.

Crash data is updated once a year, when the Department for Transport publishes its final figures for the previous year. The current figures run from 1979 to 2025. Live road closures are checked every 5 minutes, day and night.

Police grade each collision by its worst injury. It is fatal if someone died within 30 days, and serious if someone was kept in hospital or suffered an injury such as a fracture, concussion, internal injuries or severe cuts. Everything else, such as sprains, bruises and minor cuts, is slight.

Open the page for your road by its number, such as the A38, to see its crashes by year, a map of the most recent ones and the areas and towns it runs through. Each council area page also lists its busiest roads with their collision counts.

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