Road crashes in North Lanarkshire

13,699 recorded collisions since 2000.

North Lanarkshire has recorded 13,699 road collisions since 2000, 200 of them fatal and 2,179 causing serious injury. That makes it the 85th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 17% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 14.6 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 79% since 2000, from 988 to 206 in 2024. The A721 is the most affected road locally, with 903 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.