Road crashes in Neath Port Talbot

6,767 recorded collisions since 2000.

Neath Port Talbot has recorded 6,767 road collisions since 2000, 113 of them fatal and 761 causing serious injury. That makes it the 241st-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 13% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 16.7 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 82% since 2000, from 424 to 77 in 2024. The M4 is the most affected road locally, with 766 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.