Road crashes in Swale

9,523 recorded collisions since 2000.

Swale has recorded 9,523 road collisions since 2000, 124 of them fatal and 1,333 causing serious injury. That makes it the 148th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 15% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 13 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 36% since 2000, from 427 to 274 in 2024. The A2 is the most affected road locally, with 1,692 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.