Road crashes in Barnet

26,968 recorded collisions since 2000.

Barnet has recorded 26,968 road collisions since 2000, 210 of them fatal and 3,249 causing serious injury. That makes it the 17th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 13% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 7.8 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 50% since 2000, from 1,551 to 777 in 2024. The A5 is the most affected road locally, with 2,491 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.