Unitary authority · England
Reading road collision data
Between 2021 and 2025, the police recorded 1,305 injury collisions in Reading's highway authority area, 187 of them fatal or serious. These are the published STATS19 figures, which also include motorways and trunk roads in the area.
- Injury collisions
- 1,305
- 2021–2025
- Casualties
- 1,459
- People injured or killed
- Fatal collisions
- 9
- 178 serious, 1,118 slight
- Vulnerable road users
- 88%
- of people killed or seriously injured
Collisions by year and severity
In 2025, Reading recorded 46 fatal or serious collisions, 23% above its average of 37 a year over 2021–2025.
| Year | Fatal | Serious | Slight | Total | Casualties | Fatal or serious |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 0 | 30 | 204 | 234 | 264 |
30
|
| 2022 | 3 | 43 | 264 | 310 | 351 |
46
|
| 2023 | 0 | 34 | 226 | 260 | 286 |
34
|
| 2024 | 2 | 29 | 220 | 251 | 277 |
31
|
| 2025 | 4 | 42 | 204 | 250 | 281 |
46
|
| 2021–2025 | 9 | 178 | 1,118 | 1,305 | 1,459 | 187 |
Casualties by road user
1,459 people were hurt in these collisions: 11 killed, 183 seriously injured and 1,265 slightly injured. Pedestrians, pedal cyclists and motorcyclists made up 88% of those killed or seriously injured.
| Road user | Casualties | Share | Killed or seriously injured | Share of KSI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pedestrians | 291 | 19.9% | 80 | 41.2% |
| Pedal cyclists | 346 | 23.7% | 38 | 19.6% |
| Motorcyclists | 262 | 18.0% | 53 | 27.3% |
| All road users | 1,459 | 100% | 194 | 100% |
Roads with the most collisions
Classified roads in Reading, by injury collisions recorded on them in 2021–2025.
- A329 311 collisions · 54 fatal or serious
- A4 133 collisions · 23 fatal or serious
- A327 72 collisions · 10 fatal or serious
- A33 60 collisions · 9 fatal or serious
- A4155 56 collisions · 7 fatal or serious
- B3031 39 collisions · 5 fatal or serious
- M4 18 collisions · 1 fatal or serious
- A4074 12 collisions · 2 fatal or serious
- B3345 12 collisions · 1 fatal or serious
- B481 9 collisions · 1 fatal or serious
Areas within Reading
Area pages with maps, hotspots and every collision, by collisions in 2021–2025.
How to get a formal collision extract from Reading
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 Reading'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.