Road crashes in City of Edinburgh

27,956 recorded collisions since 2000.

City of Edinburgh has recorded 27,956 road collisions since 2000, 209 of them fatal and 3,983 causing serious injury. That makes it the 16th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 15% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 7.5 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 75% since 2000, from 1,891 to 481 in 2024. The A8 is the most affected road locally, with 1,943 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.