Road crashes in Bath and North East Somerset

8,385 recorded collisions since 2000.

Bath and North East Somerset has recorded 8,385 road collisions since 2000, 137 of them fatal and 906 causing serious injury. That makes it the 178th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 12% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 16.3 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 58% since 2000, from 446 to 187 in 2024. The A4 is the most affected road locally, with 993 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.