Road crashes in Exeter

7,453 recorded collisions since 2000.

Exeter has recorded 7,453 road collisions since 2000, 60 of them fatal and 818 causing serious injury. That makes it the 209th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 12% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 8.1 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 51% since 2000, from 394 to 194 in 2024. The B3212 is the most affected road locally, with 451 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.