Road crashes in Basildon

10,010 recorded collisions since 2000.

Basildon has recorded 10,010 road collisions since 2000, 99 of them fatal and 1,626 causing serious injury. That makes it the 138th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 17% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 9.9 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 59% since 2000, from 668 to 273 in 2024. The A127 is the most affected road locally, with 954 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.