Road crashes in Torfaen

2,890 recorded collisions since 2000.

Torfaen has recorded 2,890 road collisions since 2000, 46 of them fatal and 457 causing serious injury. That makes it the 340th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 17% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 15.9 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 53% since 2000, from 188 to 89 in 2024. The A4042 is the most affected road locally, with 435 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.