Road crashes in City of London

7,544 recorded collisions since 2000.

City of London has recorded 7,544 road collisions since 2000, 40 of them fatal and 1,211 causing serious injury. That makes it the 208th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 17% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 5.3 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 60% since 2000, from 417 to 166 in 2024. The A10 is the most affected road locally, with 909 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.