Live · DfT STATS19 & National Highways

Where crashes keep happening on Britain’s roads

Name: UK Accident Blackspots — road collision hotspots
Creator: UK Traffic Updates
License: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Police collision records and live National Highways incident data, matched to the junctions where they cluster. Free to search, updated around the clock.

3,776 People killed

55,420Seriously hurt

349,537Casualties

270,892Collisions

10,466Junctions

2,808Roads

Updated 15 min ago · refreshed every 15 minutes

The ten worst roads

Ranked by recorded incidents

M25 3,677 casualties · 29 killed 3,037incidents A23 3,533 casualties · 20 killed 2,978incidents A38 3,904 casualties · 47 killed 2,937incidents A4 3,122 casualties · 28 killed 2,617incidents A2 3,181 casualties · 25 killed 2,477incidents A3 2,986 casualties · 17 killed 2,445incidents M1 3,147 casualties · 50 killed 2,434incidents A6 3,074 casualties · 36 killed 2,325incidents A406 2,948 casualties · 20 killed 2,212incidents A41 2,839 casualties · 33 killed 2,206incidents

How severe

Police-recorded outcomes

3,776Fatal · 1.4%

55,420Serious · 20.5%

211,696Slight · 78.1%

349,537 People hurt

Every recorded collision

4,109 plotted · zoom in, tap any point

Fatal Severe Serious Slight

What happens

Most common incident types

💥

272,355

Collision · 99%

🚦

1,502

Congestion · 1%

🚫

304

Closure · 0%

🌧️

Weather · 0%

🔥

Fire · 0%

Flagged junctions

10,466 found

Find a road

Region

All UK (10466) South East (510) South West (499) Midlands (711) North West (239) North East (276) East (317) London (447)

Severity

All (10466) Severe (5639) Warning (4827)

Source

All combined Police only National Highways only

Type

All Fatal Collisions With casualties

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Where this comes from

Two official sources, combined

270,892Police collision recordsDfT STATS19

274,274Live incidentsNational Highways

187London disruptionsTransport for London

545,353Combined recordsEverything above

About this data. Collision records are published by the Department for Transport under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Live incident data is supplied by National Highways and Transport for London under licence. Blackspot ranking is our own calculation from that data, not an official government safety assessment. © 2026 UK Traffic Updates.

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