Road crashes in Glasgow City

33,797 recorded collisions since 2000.

Glasgow City has recorded 33,797 road collisions since 2000, 324 of them fatal and 5,498 causing serious injury. That makes it the 9th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 17% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 9.6 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 71% since 2000, from 2,167 to 622 in 2024. The M8 is the most affected road locally, with 2,189 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.