Road crashes in Peterborough

15,933 recorded collisions since 2000.

Peterborough has recorded 15,933 road collisions since 2000, 200 of them fatal and 2,045 causing serious injury. That makes it the 69th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 14% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 12.6 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 61% since 2000, from 860 to 337 in 2024. The A15 is the most affected road locally, with 1,935 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.