Road crashes in Stroud

5,204 recorded collisions since 2000.

Stroud has recorded 5,204 road collisions since 2000, 106 of them fatal and 927 causing serious injury. That makes it the 299th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 20% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 20.4 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 48% since 2000, from 312 to 161 in 2024. The M5 is the most affected road locally, with 633 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.