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Thaxted road accidents: crash map and statistics

Police recorded 127 road traffic collisions in Thaxted, Uttlesford, from 1979 to 2025, and 159 people were killed or injured in them. Of those collisions, 1 was fatal and 32 were serious.

No collisions were recorded in 2025, after 2 in 2024.

Collisions since 1979
127
2,505th of 2,851 towns, highest first
Casualties
159
1.25 per collision
Fatal collisions
1
1 person killed
Serious collisions
32
35 seriously injured
Collisions in 2025
0
2 in 2024
Casualties in 2025
0
5 in 2024

Road collision statistics for Thaxted

Collisions by severity, 1979 to 2025

  • Fatal10.8%
  • Serious3225%
  • Slight9474%

What the data shows

  • Thaxted had 18 collisions from 2016 to 2025, about the same as the 18 from 2006 to 2015.
  • 26% of collisions in Thaxted were fatal or serious, against 20% across Great Britain.
  • 23 children under 16 were killed or injured in Thaxted, 15% of the casualties whose age was recorded.
  • The road surface was wet, icy, snowy or flooded in 30% of collisions in Thaxted.

Where Thaxted ranks among 2,851 towns

Most collisions
2,505th
Most casualties
2,595th
Most fatal collisions
2,420th
Most serious collisions
2,244th

Collisions by day of the week

  • Monday19 (15%)
  • Tuesday20 (16%)
  • Wednesday16 (13%)
  • Thursday14 (11%)
  • Friday26 (20%)
  • Saturday18 (14%)
  • Sunday14 (11%)

Light conditions

  • Daylight97 (76%)
  • Dark, street lights lit23 (18%)
  • Dark, no street lighting5 (3.9%)
  • Dark, lighting unknown2 (1.6%)

Type of road

  • Single carriageway125 (98%)
  • Dual carriageway2 (1.6%)

Speed limit at the scene

  • 30 mph117 (92%)
  • 60 mph10 (7.9%)

Weather at the time

  • Fine, no high winds108 (85%)
  • Raining, no high winds11 (8.7%)
  • Fine with high winds3 (2.4%)
  • Fog or mist2 (1.6%)
  • Raining with high winds2 (1.6%)
  • Other1 (0.8%)

Who was hurt

  • Car occupant81 (51%)
  • Pedestrian39 (25%)
  • Motorcyclist22 (14%)
  • Cyclist13 (8.2%)
  • Van occupant3 (1.9%)
  • Other vehicle occupant1 (0.6%)

Source: Department for Transport, STATS19 road safety data

Thaxted road accidents by year

Collisions and casualties in Thaxted, 1979 to 2025

Collisions in Thaxted peaked at 9 in 1995; none were recorded in 2025.

  • Collisions
  • Collisions in 2025
  • Casualties

Source: Department for Transport, STATS19 road safety data

View as a table
YearCollisionsCasualties
202500
202425
202322
202222
202122
202000
201900
201833
201745
201633
201533
201423
201322
201200
201100
201022
200900
200823
200723
200656
200536
200423
200333
200235
200134
200011
199933
199811
199711
199666
1995910
199423
199333
199244
199135
199045
198935
198846
198756
198645
198556
198422
198357
198244
198158
198022
197911

Map of recent crashes in Thaxted

Map of the 24 most recent crashes in Thaxted

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  • 24 crashes
  • Serious
  • Slight

Recent road crashes in Thaxted

The 24 most recent collisions in Thaxted happened between 16 December 2013 and 2 October 2024.

Severity

Crashes by road in Thaxted

The B184 has the most collisions in Thaxted, 87 of 127 (69%), followed by the B1051 (6).

Collisions in Thaxted on each road, 1979 to 2025
RankRoadCollisionsCasualtiesFatalSerious
1stB18487115121
2ndB10516701

Council area for Thaxted

Thaxted is in Uttlesford, where police recorded 13,365 collisions from 1979 to 2025. Thaxted accounts for 0.9% of them.

Postcode district for Thaxted

All 127 collisions in Thaxted were in the CM6 postcode district.