County council · England
Essex road collision data
Between 2021 and 2025, the police recorded 11,594 injury collisions in Essex's highway authority area, 3,244 of them fatal or serious. These are the published STATS19 figures, which also include motorways and trunk roads in the area.
- Injury collisions
- 11,594
- 2021–2025
- Casualties
- 15,171
- People injured or killed
- Fatal collisions
- 193
- 3,051 serious, 8,350 slight
- Vulnerable road users
- 49%
- of people killed or seriously injured
Collisions by year and severity
In 2025, Essex recorded 714 fatal or serious collisions, 10% above its average of 649 a year over 2021–2025.
| Year | Fatal | Serious | Slight | Total | Casualties | Fatal or serious |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 32 | 575 | 1,653 | 2,260 | 3,016 |
607
|
| 2022 | 41 | 636 | 1,700 | 2,377 | 3,141 |
677
|
| 2023 | 35 | 598 | 1,666 | 2,299 | 3,066 |
633
|
| 2024 | 42 | 571 | 1,700 | 2,313 | 2,965 |
613
|
| 2025 | 43 | 671 | 1,631 | 2,345 | 2,983 |
714
|
| 2021–2025 | 193 | 3,051 | 8,350 | 11,594 | 15,171 | 3,244 |
Casualties by road user
15,171 people were hurt in these collisions: 208 killed, 3,418 seriously injured and 11,545 slightly injured. Pedestrians, pedal cyclists and motorcyclists made up 49% of those killed or seriously injured.
| Road user | Casualties | Share | Killed or seriously injured | Share of KSI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pedestrians | 1,868 | 12.3% | 573 | 15.8% |
| Pedal cyclists | 1,148 | 7.6% | 347 | 9.6% |
| Motorcyclists | 1,829 | 12.1% | 856 | 23.6% |
| All road users | 15,171 | 100% | 3,626 | 100% |
Roads with the most collisions
Classified roads in Essex, by injury collisions recorded on them in 2021–2025.
- A12 460 collisions · 124 fatal or serious
- M11 361 collisions · 80 fatal or serious
- A120 299 collisions · 74 fatal or serious
- A414 240 collisions · 75 fatal or serious
- A133 236 collisions · 70 fatal or serious
- M25 227 collisions · 44 fatal or serious
- A130 216 collisions · 59 fatal or serious
- A127 154 collisions · 34 fatal or serious
- A132 148 collisions · 40 fatal or serious
- A134 143 collisions · 31 fatal or serious
Areas within Essex
Area pages with maps, hotspots and every collision, by collisions in 2021–2025.
- Epping Forest 1,622 collisions
- Colchester 1,599 collisions
- Chelmsford 1,527 collisions
- Basildon 1,147 collisions
- Braintree 1,137 collisions
- Tendring 1,121 collisions
- Uttlesford 827 collisions
- Brentwood 666 collisions
- Harlow 541 collisions
- Maldon 481 collisions
- Castle Point 477 collisions
- Rochford 449 collisions
How to get a formal collision extract from Essex
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 Essex'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.