Road crashes in Aberdeenshire

10,423 recorded collisions since 2000.

Aberdeenshire has recorded 10,423 road collisions since 2000, 487 of them fatal and 2,886 causing serious injury. That makes it the 130th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 32% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 46.7 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 73% since 2000, from 571 to 153 in 2024. The A90 is the most affected road locally, with 1,382 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.