Road crashes in Central Bedfordshire

16,852 recorded collisions since 2000.

Central Bedfordshire has recorded 16,852 road collisions since 2000, 321 of them fatal and 2,636 causing serious injury. That makes it the 59th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 18% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 19 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 48% since 2000, from 988 to 510 in 2024. The M1 is the most affected road locally, with 2,216 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.