Road crashes in Ashford

9,367 recorded collisions since 2000.

Ashford has recorded 9,367 road collisions since 2000, 154 of them fatal and 1,395 causing serious injury. That makes it the 152nd-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 17% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 16.4 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 46% since 2000, from 481 to 261 in 2024. The A28 is the most affected road locally, with 1,587 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.