Road crashes in Dartford

10,195 recorded collisions since 2000.

Dartford has recorded 10,195 road collisions since 2000, 100 of them fatal and 1,117 causing serious injury. That makes it the 134th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 12% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 9.8 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 35% since 2000, from 512 to 334 in 2024. The A2 is the most affected road locally, with 1,998 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.