Road crashes in Torbay

7,583 recorded collisions since 2000.

Torbay has recorded 7,583 road collisions since 2000, 54 of them fatal and 932 causing serious injury. That makes it the 206th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 13% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 7.1 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 55% since 2000, from 366 to 165 in 2024. The A3022 is the most affected road locally, with 1,018 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.