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Neath Port Talbot road collision data

Between 2021 and 2025, the police recorded 421 injury collisions in Neath Port Talbot's highway authority area, 93 of them fatal or serious. These are the published STATS19 figures, which also include motorways and trunk roads in the area.

Injury collisions
421
2021–2025
Casualties
546
People injured or killed
Fatal collisions
18
75 serious, 328 slight
Vulnerable road users
61%
of people killed or seriously injured

Collisions by year and severity

In 2025, Neath Port Talbot recorded 22 fatal or serious collisions, 18% above its average of 19 a year over 2021–2025.

Injury collisions in Neath Port Talbot by year and severity, 2021–2025
Year Fatal Serious Slight Total Casualties
2021 5 15 91 111 155
2022 4 15 63 82 107
2023 5 11 77 93 120
2024 3 13 61 77 95
2025 1 21 36 58 69
2021–2025 18 75 328 421 546

Casualties by road user

546 people were hurt in these collisions: 19 killed, 81 seriously injured and 446 slightly injured. Pedestrians, pedal cyclists and motorcyclists made up 61% of those killed or seriously injured.

Casualties by road user in Neath Port Talbot, 2021–2025
Road user Casualties Share Killed or seriously injured Share of KSI
Pedestrians 50 9.2% 14 14.0%
Pedal cyclists 45 8.2% 8 8.0%
Motorcyclists 83 15.2% 39 39.0%
All road users 546 100% 100 100%

Roads with the most collisions

Classified roads in Neath Port Talbot, by injury collisions recorded on them in 2021–2025.

  1. A465 41 collisions · 6 fatal or serious
  2. M4 39 collisions · 11 fatal or serious
  3. A48 35 collisions · 8 fatal or serious
  4. A474 35 collisions · 6 fatal or serious
  5. A4241 19 collisions · 4 fatal or serious
  6. A4107 17 collisions · 5 fatal or serious
  7. B4286 17 collisions · 3 fatal or serious
  8. B4434 15 collisions · 4 fatal or serious
  9. A4109 13 collisions · 3 fatal or serious
  10. A4067 12 collisions · 2 fatal or serious

Areas within Neath Port Talbot

Area pages with maps, hotspots and every collision, by collisions in 2021–2025.

How to get a formal collision extract from Neath Port Talbot

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 Neath Port Talbot'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.