Road crashes in East Devon

7,700 recorded collisions since 2000.

East Devon has recorded 7,700 road collisions since 2000, 146 of them fatal and 1,104 causing serious injury. That makes it the 196th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 16% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 19 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 38% since 2000, from 380 to 236 in 2024. The A3052 is the most affected road locally, with 652 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.