Road crashes in North Somerset

10,754 recorded collisions since 2000.

North Somerset has recorded 10,754 road collisions since 2000, 126 of them fatal and 1,284 causing serious injury. That makes it the 122nd-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 13% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 11.7 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 49% since 2000, from 564 to 288 in 2024. The A370 is the most affected road locally, with 1,860 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.