Principal council · Wales
Rhondda Cynon Taf road collision data
Between 2021 and 2025, the police recorded 862 injury collisions in Rhondda Cynon Taf's highway authority area, 161 of them fatal or serious. These are the published STATS19 figures, which also include motorways and trunk roads in the area.
- Injury collisions
- 862
- 2021–2025
- Casualties
- 1,198
- People injured or killed
- Fatal collisions
- 27
- 134 serious, 701 slight
- Vulnerable road users
- 58%
- of people killed or seriously injured
Collisions by year and severity
In 2025, Rhondda Cynon Taf recorded 30 fatal or serious collisions, 7% below its average of 32 a year over 2021–2025.
| Year | Fatal | Serious | Slight | Total | Casualties | Fatal or serious |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | 28 | 157 | 190 | 258 |
33
|
| 2022 | 4 | 30 | 163 | 197 | 268 |
34
|
| 2023 | 8 | 32 | 145 | 185 | 275 |
40
|
| 2024 | 5 | 19 | 120 | 144 | 190 |
24
|
| 2025 | 5 | 25 | 116 | 146 | 207 |
30
|
| 2021–2025 | 27 | 134 | 701 | 862 | 1,198 | 161 |
Casualties by road user
1,198 people were hurt in these collisions: 30 killed, 163 seriously injured and 1,005 slightly injured. Pedestrians, pedal cyclists and motorcyclists made up 58% of those killed or seriously injured.
| Road user | Casualties | Share | Killed or seriously injured | Share of KSI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pedestrians | 207 | 17.3% | 59 | 30.6% |
| Pedal cyclists | 54 | 4.5% | 14 | 7.3% |
| Motorcyclists | 113 | 9.4% | 38 | 19.7% |
| All road users | 1,198 | 100% | 193 | 100% |
Roads with the most collisions
Classified roads in Rhondda Cynon Taf, by injury collisions recorded on them in 2021–2025.
- A4059 77 collisions · 16 fatal or serious
- A4058 76 collisions · 11 fatal or serious
- A470 49 collisions · 6 fatal or serious
- A4233 45 collisions · 13 fatal or serious
- B4275 43 collisions · 10 fatal or serious
- A4119 33 collisions · 7 fatal or serious
- A4054 33 collisions · 4 fatal or serious
- A473 31 collisions · 7 fatal or serious
- A4061 28 collisions · 5 fatal or serious
- B4278 23 collisions · 6 fatal or serious
Areas within Rhondda Cynon Taf
Area pages with maps, hotspots and every collision, by collisions in 2021–2025.
How to get a formal collision extract from Rhondda Cynon Taf
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 Rhondda Cynon Taf'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.