Unitary authority · England
Bristol road collision data
Between 2021 and 2025, the police recorded 4,111 injury collisions in Bristol's highway authority area, 620 of them fatal or serious. These are the published STATS19 figures, which also include motorways and trunk roads in the area.
- Injury collisions
- 4,111
- 2021–2025
- Casualties
- 4,639
- People injured or killed
- Fatal collisions
- 30
- 590 serious, 3,491 slight
- Vulnerable road users
- 73%
- of people killed or seriously injured
Collisions by year and severity
In 2025, Bristol recorded 205 fatal or serious collisions, 65% above its average of 124 a year over 2021–2025.
| Year | Fatal | Serious | Slight | Total | Casualties | Fatal or serious |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 8 | 81 | 746 | 835 | 917 |
89
|
| 2022 | 8 | 83 | 782 | 873 | 988 |
91
|
| 2023 | 6 | 97 | 706 | 809 | 935 |
103
|
| 2024 | 7 | 125 | 709 | 841 | 955 |
132
|
| 2025 | 1 | 204 | 548 | 753 | 844 |
205
|
| 2021–2025 | 30 | 590 | 3,491 | 4,111 | 4,639 | 620 |
Casualties by road user
4,639 people were hurt in these collisions: 32 killed, 614 seriously injured and 3,993 slightly injured. Pedestrians, pedal cyclists and motorcyclists made up 73% of those killed or seriously injured.
| Road user | Casualties | Share | Killed or seriously injured | Share of KSI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pedestrians | 827 | 17.8% | 177 | 27.4% |
| Pedal cyclists | 1,099 | 23.7% | 159 | 24.6% |
| Motorcyclists | 759 | 16.4% | 135 | 20.9% |
| All road users | 4,639 | 100% | 646 | 100% |
Roads with the most collisions
Classified roads in Bristol, by injury collisions recorded on them in 2021–2025.
- A38 396 collisions · 47 fatal or serious
- A4 211 collisions · 42 fatal or serious
- A4018 191 collisions · 25 fatal or serious
- A432 186 collisions · 23 fatal or serious
- A420 172 collisions · 15 fatal or serious
- B4051 106 collisions · 16 fatal or serious
- A4044 105 collisions · 19 fatal or serious
- A37 91 collisions · 20 fatal or serious
- B4465 75 collisions · 12 fatal or serious
- B4469 74 collisions · 5 fatal or serious
Areas within Bristol
Area pages with maps, hotspots and every collision, by collisions in 2021–2025.
How to get a formal collision extract from Bristol
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 Bristol'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.