Unitary authority · England
Southend-on-Sea road collision data
Between 2021 and 2025, the police recorded 1,312 injury collisions in Southend-on-Sea's highway authority area, 334 of them fatal or serious. These are the published STATS19 figures, which also include motorways and trunk roads in the area.
- Injury collisions
- 1,312
- 2021–2025
- Casualties
- 1,610
- People injured or killed
- Fatal collisions
- 12
- 322 serious, 978 slight
- Vulnerable road users
- 68%
- of people killed or seriously injured
Collisions by year and severity
In 2025, Southend-on-Sea recorded 68 fatal or serious collisions, 2% above its average of 67 a year over 2021–2025.
| Year | Fatal | Serious | Slight | Total | Casualties | Fatal or serious |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 2 | 49 | 180 | 231 | 304 |
51
|
| 2022 | 3 | 57 | 196 | 256 | 318 |
60
|
| 2023 | 2 | 79 | 191 | 272 | 316 |
81
|
| 2024 | 1 | 73 | 206 | 280 | 340 |
74
|
| 2025 | 4 | 64 | 205 | 273 | 332 |
68
|
| 2021–2025 | 12 | 322 | 978 | 1,312 | 1,610 | 334 |
Casualties by road user
1,610 people were hurt in these collisions: 12 killed, 342 seriously injured and 1,256 slightly injured. Pedestrians, pedal cyclists and motorcyclists made up 68% of those killed or seriously injured.
| Road user | Casualties | Share | Killed or seriously injured | Share of KSI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pedestrians | 349 | 21.7% | 116 | 32.8% |
| Pedal cyclists | 189 | 11.7% | 53 | 15.0% |
| Motorcyclists | 190 | 11.8% | 70 | 19.8% |
| All road users | 1,610 | 100% | 354 | 100% |
Roads with the most collisions
Classified roads in Southend-on-Sea, by injury collisions recorded on them in 2021–2025.
- A13 178 collisions · 48 fatal or serious
- A127 117 collisions · 25 fatal or serious
- B1015 55 collisions · 16 fatal or serious
- A1159 51 collisions · 14 fatal or serious
- B1016 32 collisions · 13 fatal or serious
- A1158 25 collisions · 7 fatal or serious
- A1015 18 collisions · 5 fatal or serious
- A1160 12 collisions · 3 fatal or serious
- B1013 5 collisions · 0 fatal or serious
- B1017 3 collisions · 1 fatal or serious
Areas within Southend-on-Sea
Area pages with maps, hotspots and every collision, by collisions in 2021–2025.
How to get a formal collision extract from Southend-on-Sea
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 Southend-on-Sea'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.