Road crashes in East Suffolk

13,784 recorded collisions since 2000.

East Suffolk has recorded 13,784 road collisions since 2000, 213 of them fatal and 2,127 causing serious injury. That makes it the 84th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 17% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 15.5 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 54% since 2000, from 716 to 328 in 2024. The A12 is the most affected road locally, with 2,540 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.