Road crashes in Arun

8,391 recorded collisions since 2000.

Arun has recorded 8,391 road collisions since 2000, 129 of them fatal and 1,655 causing serious injury. That makes it the 177th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 21% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 15.4 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 30% since 2000, from 418 to 293 in 2024. The A259 is the most affected road locally, with 1,599 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.