Road crashes in Croydon

25,227 recorded collisions since 2000.

Croydon has recorded 25,227 road collisions since 2000, 166 of them fatal and 3,201 causing serious injury. That makes it the 23rd-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 13% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 6.6 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 34% since 2000, from 1,416 to 933 in 2024. The A23 is the most affected road locally, with 3,346 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.