Road crashes in Shetland Islands

651 recorded collisions since 2000.

Shetland Islands has recorded 651 road collisions since 2000, 33 of them fatal and 122 causing serious injury. That makes it the 350th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 24% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 50.7 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 66% since 2000, from 35 to 12 in 2024. The A970 is the most affected road locally, with 311 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.