Road crashes in Gwynedd

6,796 recorded collisions since 2000.

Gwynedd has recorded 6,796 road collisions since 2000, 178 of them fatal and 1,414 causing serious injury. That makes it the 239th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 23% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 26.2 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 79% since 2000, from 412 to 86 in 2024. The A487 is the most affected road locally, with 954 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.