Road crashes in Plymouth

16,671 recorded collisions since 2000.

Plymouth has recorded 16,671 road collisions since 2000, 101 of them fatal and 1,738 causing serious injury. That makes it the 62nd-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 11% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 6.1 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 56% since 2000, from 958 to 423 in 2024. The A374 is the most affected road locally, with 1,336 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.