Road crashes in Folkestone and Hythe

6,950 recorded collisions since 2000.

Folkestone and Hythe has recorded 6,950 road collisions since 2000, 119 of them fatal and 1,050 causing serious injury. That makes it the 230th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 17% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 17.1 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 51% since 2000, from 331 to 162 in 2024. The A259 is the most affected road locally, with 1,566 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.