Road crashes in East Ayrshire

4,810 recorded collisions since 2000.

East Ayrshire has recorded 4,810 road collisions since 2000, 138 of them fatal and 1,007 causing serious injury. That makes it the 311th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 24% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 28.7 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 76% since 2000, from 292 to 70 in 2024. The A71 is the most affected road locally, with 507 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.