Council area · Scotland
Argyll and Bute road collision data
Between 2021 and 2025, the police recorded 455 injury collisions in Argyll and Bute's highway authority area, 240 of them fatal or serious. These are the published STATS19 figures, which also include motorways and trunk roads in the area.
- Injury collisions
- 455
- 2021–2025
- Casualties
- 676
- People injured or killed
- Fatal collisions
- 38
- 202 serious, 215 slight
- Vulnerable road users
- 38%
- of people killed or seriously injured
Collisions by year and severity
In 2025, Argyll and Bute recorded 41 fatal or serious collisions, 15% below its average of 48 a year over 2021–2025.
| Year | Fatal | Serious | Slight | Total | Casualties | Fatal or serious |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 9 | 37 | 47 | 93 | 126 |
46
|
| 2022 | 8 | 33 | 37 | 78 | 118 |
41
|
| 2023 | 9 | 52 | 44 | 105 | 170 |
61
|
| 2024 | 7 | 44 | 46 | 97 | 146 |
51
|
| 2025 | 5 | 36 | 41 | 82 | 116 |
41
|
| 2021–2025 | 38 | 202 | 215 | 455 | 676 | 240 |
Casualties by road user
676 people were hurt in these collisions: 42 killed, 260 seriously injured and 374 slightly injured. Pedestrians, pedal cyclists and motorcyclists made up 38% of those killed or seriously injured.
| Road user | Casualties | Share | Killed or seriously injured | Share of KSI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pedestrians | 56 | 8.3% | 24 | 7.9% |
| Pedal cyclists | 27 | 4.0% | 12 | 4.0% |
| Motorcyclists | 91 | 13.5% | 78 | 25.8% |
| All road users | 676 | 100% | 302 | 100% |
Roads with the most collisions
Classified roads in Argyll and Bute, by injury collisions recorded on them in 2021–2025.
- A83 72 collisions · 41 fatal or serious
- A85 55 collisions · 33 fatal or serious
- A82 51 collisions · 33 fatal or serious
- A816 36 collisions · 23 fatal or serious
- A815 23 collisions · 12 fatal or serious
- A814 22 collisions · 12 fatal or serious
- A844 13 collisions · 6 fatal or serious
- B842 12 collisions · 5 fatal or serious
- A818 8 collisions · 5 fatal or serious
- A819 8 collisions · 3 fatal or serious
Areas within Argyll and Bute
Area pages with maps, hotspots and every collision, by collisions in 2021–2025.
How to get a formal collision extract from Argyll and Bute
The council's road safety or traffic team holds the full police records for its area. A formal extract can add what the published data leaves out: contributory factors, the officer's description of each collision and the current year's provisional records. Developers, consultants and solicitors usually pay for it.
Check Argyll and Bute's website for current fees, or contact its road safety team. Councils usually charge for extracts and send a quote before they start.
Source: Department for Transport road safety data (STATS19), 2021–2025, published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Collisions are counted against the local highway authority area recorded by the police. Casualty severities are as recorded at the time and are not adjusted.