County council · England
Kent road collision data
Between 2021 and 2025, the police recorded 15,934 injury collisions in Kent's highway authority area, 3,712 of them fatal or serious. These are the published STATS19 figures, which also include motorways and trunk roads in the area.
- Injury collisions
- 15,934
- 2021–2025
- Casualties
- 21,218
- People injured or killed
- Fatal collisions
- 214
- 3,498 serious, 12,222 slight
- Vulnerable road users
- 49%
- of people killed or seriously injured
Collisions by year and severity
In 2025, Kent recorded 839 fatal or serious collisions, 13% above its average of 742 a year over 2021–2025.
| Year | Fatal | Serious | Slight | Total | Casualties | Fatal or serious |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 47 | 637 | 2,566 | 3,250 | 4,313 |
684
|
| 2022 | 48 | 602 | 2,807 | 3,457 | 4,615 |
650
|
| 2023 | 39 | 680 | 2,653 | 3,372 | 4,587 |
719
|
| 2024 | 42 | 778 | 2,078 | 2,898 | 3,821 |
820
|
| 2025 | 38 | 801 | 2,118 | 2,957 | 3,882 |
839
|
| 2021–2025 | 214 | 3,498 | 12,222 | 15,934 | 21,218 | 3,712 |
Casualties by road user
21,218 people were hurt in these collisions: 229 killed, 3,867 seriously injured and 17,122 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 | 2,602 | 12.3% | 726 | 17.7% |
| Pedal cyclists | 1,342 | 6.3% | 373 | 9.1% |
| Motorcyclists | 2,201 | 10.4% | 895 | 21.9% |
| All road users | 21,218 | 100% | 4,096 | 100% |
Roads with the most collisions
Classified roads in Kent, by injury collisions recorded on them in 2021–2025.
- A2 828 collisions · 177 fatal or serious
- A28 546 collisions · 142 fatal or serious
- A20 524 collisions · 135 fatal or serious
- M20 400 collisions · 75 fatal or serious
- A229 395 collisions · 90 fatal or serious
- A226 329 collisions · 68 fatal or serious
- A26 296 collisions · 79 fatal or serious
- M25 281 collisions · 49 fatal or serious
- A249 261 collisions · 57 fatal or serious
- M2 228 collisions · 70 fatal or serious
Areas within Kent
Area pages with maps, hotspots and every collision, by collisions in 2021–2025.
- Maidstone 1,717 collisions
- Dartford 1,586 collisions
- Sittingbourne 1,564 collisions
- Canterbury 1,510 collisions
- Margate 1,401 collisions
- Dunton Green 1,334 collisions
- Ashford 1,330 collisions
- Maidstone West 1,300 collisions
- Dover 1,081 collisions
- Royal Tunbridge Wells 1,074 collisions
- Gravesend 1,030 collisions
- Folkestone West 1,007 collisions
How to get a formal collision extract from Kent
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.
Published fee
£206.40 for 3 years or £368.40 for 5 years, including VAT (2026 to 2027)
Kent County Council charges per location for a "technical record" of crashes. It sends a quote first and supplies the data once full payment is received. Requests go to [email protected].
Source: Kent County Council: crash and casualty data, checked 14 October 2026. Fees change, so confirm with the council before you order.
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.