Unitary authority · England
Bedford road collision data
Between 2021 and 2025, the police recorded 1,504 injury collisions in Bedford's highway authority area, 325 of them fatal or serious. These are the published STATS19 figures, which also include motorways and trunk roads in the area.
- Injury collisions
- 1,504
- 2021–2025
- Casualties
- 1,968
- People injured or killed
- Fatal collisions
- 17
- 308 serious, 1,179 slight
- Vulnerable road users
- 57%
- of people killed or seriously injured
Collisions by year and severity
In 2025, Bedford recorded 69 fatal or serious collisions, 6% above its average of 65 a year over 2021–2025.
| Year | Fatal | Serious | Slight | Total | Casualties | Fatal or serious |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 3 | 56 | 204 | 263 | 370 |
59
|
| 2022 | 3 | 69 | 256 | 328 | 419 |
72
|
| 2023 | 3 | 67 | 262 | 332 | 430 |
70
|
| 2024 | 2 | 53 | 233 | 288 | 366 |
55
|
| 2025 | 6 | 63 | 224 | 293 | 383 |
69
|
| 2021–2025 | 17 | 308 | 1,179 | 1,504 | 1,968 | 325 |
Casualties by road user
1,968 people were hurt in these collisions: 18 killed, 334 seriously injured and 1,616 slightly injured. Pedestrians, pedal cyclists and motorcyclists made up 57% of those killed or seriously injured.
| Road user | Casualties | Share | Killed or seriously injured | Share of KSI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pedestrians | 276 | 14.0% | 72 | 20.5% |
| Pedal cyclists | 231 | 11.7% | 64 | 18.2% |
| Motorcyclists | 173 | 8.8% | 63 | 17.9% |
| All road users | 1,968 | 100% | 352 | 100% |
Roads with the most collisions
Classified roads in Bedford, by injury collisions recorded on them in 2021–2025.
- A600 136 collisions · 37 fatal or serious
- A6 119 collisions · 20 fatal or serious
- A5141 117 collisions · 20 fatal or serious
- A421 106 collisions · 23 fatal or serious
- A4280 85 collisions · 14 fatal or serious
- A1 45 collisions · 9 fatal or serious
- B531 43 collisions · 11 fatal or serious
- A5140 36 collisions · 4 fatal or serious
- A603 32 collisions · 8 fatal or serious
- A428 29 collisions · 9 fatal or serious
Areas within Bedford
Area pages with maps, hotspots and every collision, by collisions in 2021–2025.
How to get a formal collision extract from Bedford
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 Bedford'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.