Road crashes in Mid Sussex

9,007 recorded collisions since 2000.

Mid Sussex has recorded 9,007 road collisions since 2000, 131 of them fatal and 1,763 causing serious injury. That makes it the 160th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 21% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 14.5 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 41% since 2000, from 452 to 268 in 2024. The A23 is the most affected road locally, with 1,264 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.