Road crashes in Reading

9,356 recorded collisions since 2000.

Reading has recorded 9,356 road collisions since 2000, 70 of them fatal and 1,057 causing serious injury. That makes it the 153rd-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 12% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 7.5 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 56% since 2000, from 573 to 251 in 2024. The A329 is the most affected road locally, with 2,206 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.