Unitary authority · England
Central Bedfordshire road collision data
Between 2021 and 2025, the police recorded 2,564 injury collisions in Central Bedfordshire's highway authority area, 600 of them fatal or serious. These are the published STATS19 figures, which also include motorways and trunk roads in the area.
- Injury collisions
- 2,564
- 2021–2025
- Casualties
- 3,701
- People injured or killed
- Fatal collisions
- 51
- 549 serious, 1,964 slight
- Vulnerable road users
- 38%
- of people killed or seriously injured
Collisions by year and severity
In 2025, Central Bedfordshire recorded 113 fatal or serious collisions, 6% below its average of 120 a year over 2021–2025.
| Year | Fatal | Serious | Slight | Total | Casualties | Fatal or serious |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 12 | 100 | 359 | 471 | 695 |
112
|
| 2022 | 14 | 106 | 408 | 528 | 742 |
120
|
| 2023 | 4 | 126 | 450 | 580 | 838 |
130
|
| 2024 | 9 | 116 | 385 | 510 | 738 |
125
|
| 2025 | 12 | 101 | 362 | 475 | 688 |
113
|
| 2021–2025 | 51 | 549 | 1,964 | 2,564 | 3,701 | 600 |
Casualties by road user
3,701 people were hurt in these collisions: 57 killed, 644 seriously injured and 3,000 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 | 292 | 7.9% | 81 | 11.6% |
| Pedal cyclists | 218 | 5.9% | 57 | 8.1% |
| Motorcyclists | 281 | 7.6% | 130 | 18.5% |
| All road users | 3,701 | 100% | 701 | 100% |
Roads with the most collisions
Classified roads in Central Bedfordshire, by injury collisions recorded on them in 2021–2025.
- M1 308 collisions · 54 fatal or serious
- A5 112 collisions · 18 fatal or serious
- A505 107 collisions · 19 fatal or serious
- A507 105 collisions · 38 fatal or serious
- A6 104 collisions · 28 fatal or serious
- A1 88 collisions · 21 fatal or serious
- A421 82 collisions · 17 fatal or serious
- A5183 46 collisions · 13 fatal or serious
- B5120 37 collisions · 10 fatal or serious
- B489 36 collisions · 5 fatal or serious
Areas within Central Bedfordshire
Area pages with maps, hotspots and every collision, by collisions in 2021–2025.
How to get a formal collision extract from Central Bedfordshire
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 Central Bedfordshire'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.