Statistics
4/06/2026
Police recorded road collisions and casualties: 2025
This release combines two previous separate publications for collisions and for casualties. All the underlying data is published on StatsWales, and the road collisions dashboard. Including additional details on: collisions and casualties by geographical area speed limit severity vehicle type.
Key points
- There has been an overall decrease in road collisions recorded by police in Wales over the last thirty years.
- In 2025, there were 3,004 police reported road collisions (an increase of 3% compared to 2024, and 9% lower than in 2022). Over the same period, road traffic in Wales increased by 2% to the highest level ever recorded in Wales.
- The 3,004 collisions resulted in 4,078 casualties. (Casualties have increased by 2% compared to 2024 and are 8% lower than in 2022 - the last calendar year before the 20mph default speed limit was introduced).
- Of the 4,078 casualties, 91 were killed, 1,116 people were seriously injured, and 2,871 people were slightly injured.
- Of the 3,004 collisions, 83 were classed as fatal collisions, 979 were serious and 1,942 were classed as slight.
