Road crashes in Dover

7,018 recorded collisions since 2000.

Dover has recorded 7,018 road collisions since 2000, 114 of them fatal and 1,014 causing serious injury. That makes it the 228th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 16% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 16.2 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 40% since 2000, from 324 to 196 in 2024. The A256 is the most affected road locally, with 972 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.