Road crashes in Renfrewshire

7,754 recorded collisions since 2000.

Renfrewshire has recorded 7,754 road collisions since 2000, 125 of them fatal and 1,412 causing serious injury. That makes it the 194th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 20% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 16.1 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 72% since 2000, from 481 to 137 in 2024. The A761 is the most affected road locally, with 744 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.