Road crashes in Dumfries and Galloway

8,055 recorded collisions since 2000.

Dumfries and Galloway has recorded 8,055 road collisions since 2000, 236 of them fatal and 1,903 causing serious injury. That makes it the 185th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 27% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 29.3 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 55% since 2000, from 423 to 192 in 2024. The A75 is the most affected road locally, with 1,174 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.