Road crashes in Aberdeen City

6,985 recorded collisions since 2000.

Aberdeen City has recorded 6,985 road collisions since 2000, 109 of them fatal and 1,518 causing serious injury. That makes it the 229th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 23% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 15.6 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 85% since 2000, from 461 to 67 in 2024. The A90 is the most affected road locally, with 609 collisions.

Figures cover collisions reported to police (STATS19) from 2000 onward; severity definitions changed over time, so treat long-range trends with care. Source: DfT STATS19, Open Government Licence v3.0.