Road crashes in Crawley

7,055 recorded collisions since 2000.

Crawley has recorded 7,055 road collisions since 2000, 67 of them fatal and 1,064 causing serious injury. That makes it the 225th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 16% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 9.5 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 38% since 2000, from 438 to 271 in 2024. The A23 is the most affected road locally, with 1,293 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.