Road crashes in Barking and Dagenham

13,119 recorded collisions since 2000.

Barking and Dagenham has recorded 13,119 road collisions since 2000, 99 of them fatal and 1,434 causing serious injury. That makes it the 91st-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 12% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 7.5 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 37% since 2000, from 771 to 482 in 2024. The A124 is the most affected road locally, with 1,797 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.