Road crashes in Braintree

8,394 recorded collisions since 2000.

Braintree has recorded 8,394 road collisions since 2000, 139 of them fatal and 1,767 causing serious injury. That makes it the 176th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 23% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 16.6 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 55% since 2000, from 524 to 235 in 2024. The A12 is the most affected road locally, with 959 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.