Council area · Scotland
South Lanarkshire road collision data
Between 2021 and 2025, the police recorded 1,136 injury collisions in South Lanarkshire's highway authority area, 497 of them fatal or serious. These are the published STATS19 figures, which also include motorways and trunk roads in the area.
- Injury collisions
- 1,136
- 2021–2025
- Casualties
- 1,574
- People injured or killed
- Fatal collisions
- 36
- 461 serious, 639 slight
- Vulnerable road users
- 43%
- of people killed or seriously injured
Collisions by year and severity
In 2025, South Lanarkshire recorded 104 fatal or serious collisions, 5% above its average of 99 a year over 2021–2025.
| Year | Fatal | Serious | Slight | Total | Casualties | Fatal or serious |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 7 | 70 | 107 | 184 | 253 |
77
|
| 2022 | 9 | 74 | 134 | 217 | 276 |
83
|
| 2023 | 7 | 112 | 143 | 262 | 370 |
119
|
| 2024 | 9 | 105 | 139 | 253 | 379 |
114
|
| 2025 | 4 | 100 | 116 | 220 | 296 |
104
|
| 2021–2025 | 36 | 461 | 639 | 1,136 | 1,574 | 497 |
Casualties by road user
1,574 people were hurt in these collisions: 37 killed, 531 seriously injured and 1,006 slightly injured. Pedestrians, pedal cyclists and motorcyclists made up 43% of those killed or seriously injured.
| Road user | Casualties | Share | Killed or seriously injured | Share of KSI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pedestrians | 254 | 16.1% | 127 | 22.4% |
| Pedal cyclists | 64 | 4.1% | 33 | 5.8% |
| Motorcyclists | 122 | 7.8% | 84 | 14.8% |
| All road users | 1,574 | 100% | 568 | 100% |
Roads with the most collisions
Classified roads in South Lanarkshire, by injury collisions recorded on them in 2021–2025.
- M74 126 collisions · 47 fatal or serious
- A724 51 collisions · 21 fatal or serious
- A72 48 collisions · 22 fatal or serious
- B7078 45 collisions · 21 fatal or serious
- A725 40 collisions · 18 fatal or serious
- A749 39 collisions · 21 fatal or serious
- A726 37 collisions · 22 fatal or serious
- A70 35 collisions · 22 fatal or serious
- A73 33 collisions · 14 fatal or serious
- B7071 28 collisions · 11 fatal or serious
Areas within South Lanarkshire
Area pages with maps, hotspots and every collision, by collisions in 2021–2025.
How to get a formal collision extract from South Lanarkshire
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 South Lanarkshire'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.