Unitary authority · England
Somerset road collision data
Between 2021 and 2025, the police recorded 3,985 injury collisions in Somerset's highway authority area, 836 of them fatal or serious. These are the published STATS19 figures, which also include motorways and trunk roads in the area.
- Injury collisions
- 3,985
- 2021–2025
- Casualties
- 5,561
- People injured or killed
- Fatal collisions
- 105
- 731 serious, 3,149 slight
- Vulnerable road users
- 44%
- of people killed or seriously injured
Collisions by year and severity
In 2025, Somerset recorded 248 fatal or serious collisions, 48% above its average of 167 a year over 2021–2025.
| Year | Fatal | Serious | Slight | Total | Casualties | Fatal or serious |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 24 | 114 | 597 | 735 | 996 |
138
|
| 2022 | 20 | 116 | 603 | 739 | 1,030 |
136
|
| 2023 | 23 | 143 | 625 | 791 | 1,172 |
166
|
| 2024 | 21 | 127 | 716 | 864 | 1,215 |
148
|
| 2025 | 17 | 231 | 608 | 856 | 1,148 |
248
|
| 2021–2025 | 105 | 731 | 3,149 | 3,985 | 5,561 | 836 |
Casualties by road user
5,561 people were hurt in these collisions: 116 killed, 864 seriously injured and 4,581 slightly injured. Pedestrians, pedal cyclists and motorcyclists made up 44% of those killed or seriously injured.
| Road user | Casualties | Share | Killed or seriously injured | Share of KSI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pedestrians | 544 | 9.8% | 129 | 13.2% |
| Pedal cyclists | 396 | 7.1% | 75 | 7.7% |
| Motorcyclists | 549 | 9.9% | 224 | 22.9% |
| All road users | 5,561 | 100% | 980 | 100% |
Roads with the most collisions
Classified roads in Somerset, by injury collisions recorded on them in 2021–2025.
- A38 332 collisions · 61 fatal or serious
- A39 312 collisions · 72 fatal or serious
- A358 166 collisions · 34 fatal or serious
- A303 157 collisions · 34 fatal or serious
- A361 147 collisions · 44 fatal or serious
- A37 111 collisions · 23 fatal or serious
- A30 104 collisions · 26 fatal or serious
- A371 103 collisions · 33 fatal or serious
- M5 99 collisions · 21 fatal or serious
- B3139 75 collisions · 14 fatal or serious
Areas within Somerset
Area pages with maps, hotspots and every collision, by collisions in 2021–2025.
How to get a formal collision extract from Somerset
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 Somerset'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.