Road crashes in Thanet

9,553 recorded collisions since 2000.

Thanet has recorded 9,553 road collisions since 2000, 89 of them fatal and 1,278 causing serious injury. That makes it the 146th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 14% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 9.3 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 47% since 2000, from 457 to 243 in 2024. The A28 is the most affected road locally, with 872 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.