Road crashes in Cornwall

36,512 recorded collisions since 2000.

Cornwall has recorded 36,512 road collisions since 2000, 646 of them fatal and 4,997 causing serious injury. That makes it the 5th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 15% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 17.7 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 52% since 2000, from 1,964 to 941 in 2024. The A30 is the most affected road locally, with 3,258 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.