Road crashes in Cambridge

9,671 recorded collisions since 2000.

Cambridge has recorded 9,671 road collisions since 2000, 27 of them fatal and 1,344 causing serious injury. That makes it the 143rd-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 14% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 2.8 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 63% since 2000, from 585 to 215 in 2024. The A1134 is the most affected road locally, with 1,945 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.