Principal council · Wales
Blaenau Gwent road collision data
Between 2021 and 2025, the police recorded 296 injury collisions in Blaenau Gwent's highway authority area, 98 of them fatal or serious. These are the published STATS19 figures, which also include motorways and trunk roads in the area.
- Injury collisions
- 296
- 2021–2025
- Casualties
- 377
- People injured or killed
- Fatal collisions
- 4
- 94 serious, 198 slight
- Vulnerable road users
- 43%
- of people killed or seriously injured
Collisions by year and severity
In 2025, Blaenau Gwent recorded 23 fatal or serious collisions, 17% above its average of 20 a year over 2021–2025.
| Year | Fatal | Serious | Slight | Total | Casualties | Fatal or serious |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | 26 | 43 | 70 | 94 |
27
|
| 2022 | 0 | 16 | 44 | 60 | 81 |
16
|
| 2023 | 1 | 14 | 33 | 48 | 57 |
15
|
| 2024 | 0 | 17 | 36 | 53 | 68 |
17
|
| 2025 | 2 | 21 | 42 | 65 | 77 |
23
|
| 2021–2025 | 4 | 94 | 198 | 296 | 377 | 98 |
Casualties by road user
377 people were hurt in these collisions: 4 killed, 116 seriously injured and 257 slightly injured. Pedestrians, pedal cyclists and motorcyclists made up 43% of those killed or seriously injured.
| Road user | Casualties | Share | Killed or seriously injured | Share of KSI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pedestrians | 57 | 15.1% | 16 | 13.3% |
| Pedal cyclists | 21 | 5.6% | 6 | 5.0% |
| Motorcyclists | 45 | 11.9% | 29 | 24.2% |
| All road users | 377 | 100% | 120 | 100% |
Roads with the most collisions
Classified roads in Blaenau Gwent, by injury collisions recorded on them in 2021–2025.
- A467 38 collisions · 13 fatal or serious
- A4046 30 collisions · 11 fatal or serious
- A4047 20 collisions · 5 fatal or serious
- A465 14 collisions · 5 fatal or serious
- A4048 11 collisions · 4 fatal or serious
- A4281 7 collisions · 4 fatal or serious
- B4256 6 collisions · 3 fatal or serious
- B4471 5 collisions · 1 fatal or serious
- B4478 3 collisions · 1 fatal or serious
- B4560 3 collisions · 2 fatal or serious
Areas within Blaenau Gwent
Area pages with maps, hotspots and every collision, by collisions in 2021–2025.
How to get a formal collision extract from Blaenau Gwent
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 Blaenau Gwent'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.