Road crashes in Portsmouth

15,616 recorded collisions since 2000.

Portsmouth has recorded 15,616 road collisions since 2000, 84 of them fatal and 2,490 causing serious injury. That makes it the 71st-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 16% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 5.4 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 54% since 2000, from 980 to 449 in 2024. The A3 is the most affected road locally, with 1,672 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.