Road crashes in South Lanarkshire

13,220 recorded collisions since 2000.

South Lanarkshire has recorded 13,220 road collisions since 2000, 285 of them fatal and 2,355 causing serious injury. That makes it the 88th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 20% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 21.6 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 72% since 2000, from 899 to 253 in 2024. The M74 is the most affected road locally, with 1,154 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.