Road crashes in South Oxfordshire

8,074 recorded collisions since 2000.

South Oxfordshire has recorded 8,074 road collisions since 2000, 232 of them fatal and 1,495 causing serious injury. That makes it the 184th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 21% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 28.7 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 71% since 2000, from 485 to 142 in 2024. The M40 is the most affected road locally, with 821 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.