Road crashes in South Gloucestershire

14,023 recorded collisions since 2000.

South Gloucestershire has recorded 14,023 road collisions since 2000, 204 of them fatal and 1,424 causing serious injury. That makes it the 83rd-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 12% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 14.5 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 63% since 2000, from 877 to 321 in 2024. The M4 is the most affected road locally, with 1,103 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.