Road crashes in Brighton and Hove

21,049 recorded collisions since 2000.

Brighton and Hove has recorded 21,049 road collisions since 2000, 137 of them fatal and 3,613 causing serious injury. That makes it the 39th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 18% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 6.5 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 51% since 2000, from 1,116 to 543 in 2024. The A23 is the most affected road locally, with 2,176 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.