Road crashes in West Oxfordshire

5,755 recorded collisions since 2000.

West Oxfordshire has recorded 5,755 road collisions since 2000, 147 of them fatal and 1,135 causing serious injury. That makes it the 274th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 22% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 25.5 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 68% since 2000, from 405 to 128 in 2024. The A40 is the most affected road locally, with 795 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.