Road crashes in Dorset

23,647 recorded collisions since 2000.

Dorset has recorded 23,647 road collisions since 2000, 491 of them fatal and 4,314 causing serious injury. That makes it the 27th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 20% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 20.8 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 52% since 2000, from 1,420 to 686 in 2024. The A35 is the most affected road locally, with 2,220 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.