Road crashes in Lewisham

22,309 recorded collisions since 2000.

Lewisham has recorded 22,309 road collisions since 2000, 118 of them fatal and 2,831 causing serious injury. That makes it the 32nd-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 13% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 5.3 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 42% since 2000, from 1,262 to 731 in 2024. The A21 is the most affected road locally, with 3,362 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.