# Reported road collisions per 1,000 people

The yearly average number of injury collisions reported to the police for every 1,000 residents, over the five years to 2025.

## Facts

- Published by: Department for Transport
- Level of detail: Council
- Updates: Yearly
- History: Since 2025
- Licence: Open Government Licence 3.0
- Levels: Council

## Periods

| Level | First | Latest | Periods |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Council | 2025 | 2025 | 1 |

## Coverage

| Nation | Areas | With a figure |
| --- | --- | --- |
| England | 296 | 295 |
| Wales | 22 | 22 |
| Scotland | 32 | 32 |
| Northern Ireland | 11 | 0 |

Northern Ireland collisions are published by the Police Service of Northern Ireland in a different format. They are not in this layer.

## Gaps

- Northern Ireland collisions are published by the Police Service of Northern Ireland in a different format. They are not in this layer: 11 (Antrim and Newtownabbey, Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon, Belfast, Causeway Coast and Glens, Derry City and Strabane, Fermanagh and Omagh)
- Fewer than 10 reported collisions in five years, so no rate is shown: 1 (Isles of Scilly)

## Caveats

- The rate is the number of injury collisions reported to the police in 2021 to 2025, divided by five, divided by the council's mid-2025 population, for every 1,000 people.
- Places that many people visit or commute to, such as the City of London and Westminster, have more collisions than their residents alone would suggest, so their rates look high.
- Collisions are counted where they happened, not where the people involved live.
- Collisions with no injury, and injuries that were never reported to police, are not included.
- A council with fewer than 10 reported collisions in the five years has no rate.
- Barnsley and Sheffield use a population from before April 2025 and collisions inside their boundaries today.

## Example: Hackney

In the five years to 2025, reported road collisions in Hackney averaged 2.9 per 1,000 people a year.

https://openindex.co.uk/hackney

## Sources

### Road safety open data (STATS19)

- Publisher: Department for Transport
- Licence: [Open Government Licence 3.0](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)
- Edition: 2021-2025
- Published: 30 July 2026
- Fetched: 15 October 2026
- Updates: annual
- Credit: Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19).
- Publisher's page: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/road-safety-open-data

## Use it

- [The map](https://openindex.co.uk/map/road-collisions-rate)
- Download (Council): https://data.openindex.co.uk/s/2026.10.9/downloads/layers/road-collisions-rate/council.csv
- API: https://openindex.co.uk/v1/layers/road-collisions-rate

## How to cite

Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/sources/road-collisions-rate.

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- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19).

Snapshot 2026.10.9. The HTML page: https://openindex.co.uk/sources/road-collisions-rate