Road crashes in Forest of Dean

4,246 recorded collisions since 2000.

Forest of Dean has recorded 4,246 road collisions since 2000, 131 of them fatal and 804 causing serious injury. That makes it the 320th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 22% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 30.9 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 50% since 2000, from 267 to 134 in 2024. The A48 is the most affected road locally, with 633 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.