Road crashes in Wiltshire

28,415 recorded collisions since 2000.

Wiltshire has recorded 28,415 road collisions since 2000, 665 of them fatal and 4,704 causing serious injury. That makes it the 14th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 19% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 23.4 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 47% since 2000, from 1,667 to 880 in 2024. The A350 is the most affected road locally, with 1,754 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.