Road crashes in Somerset

32,203 recorded collisions since 2000.

Somerset has recorded 32,203 road collisions since 2000, 716 of them fatal and 4,427 causing serious injury. That makes it the 11th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 16% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 22.2 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 54% since 2000, from 1,866 to 864 in 2024. The A38 is the most affected road locally, with 2,701 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.