Road crashes in St Albans

11,581 recorded collisions since 2000.

St Albans has recorded 11,581 road collisions since 2000, 131 of them fatal and 1,567 causing serious injury. That makes it the 109th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 15% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 11.3 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 77% since 2000, from 876 to 200 in 2024. The M1 is the most affected road locally, with 2,697 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.