Road crashes in Cheltenham

4,901 recorded collisions since 2000.

Cheltenham has recorded 4,901 road collisions since 2000, 49 of them fatal and 780 causing serious injury. That makes it the 310th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 17% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 10 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 52% since 2000, from 335 to 161 in 2024. The A40 is the most affected road locally, with 767 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.