Principal council · Wales
Vale of Glamorgan road collision data
Between 2021 and 2025, the police recorded 478 injury collisions in Vale of Glamorgan's highway authority area, 92 of them fatal or serious. These are the published STATS19 figures, which also include motorways and trunk roads in the area.
- Injury collisions
- 478
- 2021–2025
- Casualties
- 666
- People injured or killed
- Fatal collisions
- 11
- 81 serious, 386 slight
- Vulnerable road users
- 55%
- of people killed or seriously injured
Collisions by year and severity
In 2025, Vale of Glamorgan recorded 17 fatal or serious collisions, 8% below its average of 18 a year over 2021–2025.
| Year | Fatal | Serious | Slight | Total | Casualties | Fatal or serious |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 2 | 14 | 72 | 88 | 126 |
16
|
| 2022 | 0 | 17 | 86 | 103 | 131 |
17
|
| 2023 | 1 | 19 | 75 | 95 | 122 |
20
|
| 2024 | 6 | 16 | 68 | 90 | 141 |
22
|
| 2025 | 2 | 15 | 85 | 102 | 146 |
17
|
| 2021–2025 | 11 | 81 | 386 | 478 | 666 | 92 |
Casualties by road user
666 people were hurt in these collisions: 15 killed, 90 seriously injured and 561 slightly injured. Pedestrians, pedal cyclists and motorcyclists made up 55% of those killed or seriously injured.
| Road user | Casualties | Share | Killed or seriously injured | Share of KSI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pedestrians | 80 | 12.0% | 26 | 24.8% |
| Pedal cyclists | 47 | 7.1% | 9 | 8.6% |
| Motorcyclists | 80 | 12.0% | 23 | 21.9% |
| All road users | 666 | 100% | 105 | 100% |
Roads with the most collisions
Classified roads in Vale of Glamorgan, by injury collisions recorded on them in 2021–2025.
- A4055 59 collisions · 12 fatal or serious
- A48 40 collisions · 13 fatal or serious
- B4267 27 collisions · 6 fatal or serious
- A4050 26 collisions · 7 fatal or serious
- B4265 17 collisions · 6 fatal or serious
- A4226 17 collisions · 4 fatal or serious
- M4 13 collisions · 1 fatal or serious
- A4160 13 collisions · 3 fatal or serious
- A4231 9 collisions · 0 fatal or serious
- B4294 8 collisions · 1 fatal or serious
Areas within Vale of Glamorgan
Area pages with maps, hotspots and every collision, by collisions in 2021–2025.
How to get a formal collision extract from Vale of Glamorgan
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 Vale of Glamorgan'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.