Road crashes in Medway

15,407 recorded collisions since 2000.

Medway has recorded 15,407 road collisions since 2000, 136 of them fatal and 1,891 causing serious injury. That makes it the 72nd-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 13% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 8.8 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 37% since 2000, from 709 to 446 in 2024. The A2 is the most affected road locally, with 2,207 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.