Road crashes in Westminster

39,625 recorded collisions since 2000.

Westminster has recorded 39,625 road collisions since 2000, 213 of them fatal and 5,774 causing serious injury. That makes it the 4th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 15% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 5.4 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 57% since 2000, from 2,516 to 1,094 in 2024. The A4 is the most affected road locally, with 3,792 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.