Road crashes in Oxford

9,630 recorded collisions since 2000.

Oxford has recorded 9,630 road collisions since 2000, 49 of them fatal and 1,384 causing serious injury. That makes it the 145th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 15% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 5.1 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 50% since 2000, from 520 to 259 in 2024. The A420 is the most affected road locally, with 1,878 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.