Road crashes in Merton

12,067 recorded collisions since 2000.

Merton has recorded 12,067 road collisions since 2000, 74 of them fatal and 1,606 causing serious injury. That makes it the 100th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 14% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 6.1 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 43% since 2000, from 696 to 399 in 2024. The A24 is the most affected road locally, with 1,288 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.