Privacy & terms

Privacy

CollisionWatch has no accounts, no logins, and no advertising or tracking cookies. We don't collect or store any personal information about visitors to this site.

The place search box sends your query to OpenStreetMap's Nominatim geocoding service to look up matching locations - that request goes directly from your browser to Nominatim, not through our servers. See OpenStreetMap's privacy policy for how they handle it.

Our servers process the same basic technical information any website receives (like your IP address and browser) purely to serve pages, and we don't link it to any identity.

About the collision data

STATS19, the dataset this site maps, doesn't contain names, addresses, phone numbers, or vehicle registration plates. The most specific personal information it records is age, sex, and an area-level deprivation score - there's no way to identify anyone involved in a collision from what's shown here. See our FAQ for more.

Terms of use

CollisionWatch is provided free, as a public service, with no warranty of any kind. We display STATS19 exactly as published by the DfT; we don't verify, edit, or correct individual records, and errors originating in the source data (location, severity, vehicle details) will appear here too. Figures shouldn't be treated as a substitute for an official police or insurance report for any specific collision.

Using our data and maps

The underlying STATS19 data is published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. You're free to quote figures, take screenshots, and reuse the information for any purpose. Please credit CollisionWatch as the source, and acknowledge the Department for Transport and © Crown copyright for the underlying data. Map tiles are © OpenStreetMap contributors / CARTO, and area boundaries are from the Office for National Statistics.

Changes

We may update this page as the site changes. Questions about either section can go to hello@collisionwatch.example.