Road crashes in Argyll and Bute

5,415 recorded collisions since 2000.

Argyll and Bute has recorded 5,415 road collisions since 2000, 220 of them fatal and 1,439 causing serious injury. That makes it the 289th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 31% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 40.6 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 67% since 2000, from 298 to 97 in 2024. The A83 is the most affected road locally, with 1,044 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.