Accident hotspots in Bournemouth: where crashes cluster
Police recorded 458 road collisions in Bournemouth in 2025. We mapped every one to find the junctions and roads where they concentrate.
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Road Risk Score
Bournemouth ranks 38 of 125 towns we score — band C, around average
55.3 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents, 165.5 vehicle crimes per 100,000, 64.8% of collisions involving someone outside a car, and a five-year trend of -1.3%. How the score works.
Vulnerable road users in Bournemouth (2025)
93 of Bournemouth's 458 collisions (20%) involved pedestrians; 104 of Bournemouth's 458 collisions (23%) involved cyclists; 100 of Bournemouth's 458 collisions (22%) involved motorcyclists. Together those collisions left 91 people killed or seriously injured.
| Road user | Collisions | Share of all collisions | Killed or seriously injured | Serious-outcome rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pedestrians | 93 | 20% | 24 | 26% |
| Cyclists | 104 | 23% | 27 | 26% |
| Motorcyclists | 100 | 22% | 40 | 40% |
39 of Bournemouth’s collisions in 2025 involved a child casualty.
Bournemouth’s busiest collision clusters (2025)
Each circle is a ~100m cluster of police-reported collisions. Larger circles = more collisions; red = at least one death. Click a circle for details.
The short answer
Bournemouth recorded 458 police-reported collisions in 2025 — falling (-6.9% on 2024), or about 233 per 100,000 residents. Its most stubborn risk is Canford Road, Wallisdown, a hotspot in 5 of the last 5 years.
458
Collisions in Bournemouth (2025)
510
People injured or killed
-6.9%
Change vs 2024
~477
Modelled collisions in 2026 on current trend
Bournemouth’s junctions that stay dangerous
These locations recorded multiple collisions in at least four of the last five years (2021–2025) — a persistent pattern, not a one-off bad year.
Canford Road, Wallisdown
A3049
16 collisions across 5 hotspot years · 18 casualties · 3 serious or fatal
Holdenhurst Road, Charminster
A35
14 collisions across 4 hotspot years · 15 casualties · 4 serious or fatal
Spur Road, Townsend
A338
10 collisions across 4 hotspot years · 10 casualties · 3 serious or fatal
Bournemouth’s worst accident spots
| # | Location | Road | Collisions | Casualties | Serious | Fatal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Christchurch Road, Iford | A35 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| 2 | Heron Court Road, Charminster | A3049 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | Holdenhurst Road, Charminster | A35 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 |
| 4 | Old Christchurch Road, Charminster | B3066 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | St John's Road, Boscombe | A35 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
What to do with this: if your regular routes cross the junctions above, they deserve extra care at peak times — these aren’t random locations, they’re where collisions repeat. For context, Bournemouth’s rate of 233 per 100,000 residents compares with an average of 220 across the 125 areas we track. A junction with a documented five-year history is also the strongest evidence a campaign can put in front of a councillor.
Vulnerable road users in Bournemouth in 2025: 93 collisions involved a pedestrian, 104 a cyclist and 100 a motorcyclist — overall, 232.5 collisions per 100,000 residents.
Area definition: figures cover 6km radius of the town centre. Per-100k rates use the mid-2023 ONS population estimate for the named town or district; where the area is radius-defined, treat the rate as indicative.
These figures come from the Department for Transport’s STATS19 dataset — every collision reported to the police in 2025 — clustered to roughly 100 metres and labelled via OpenStreetMap. Only police-reported incidents are included, so minor damage-only bumps are undercounted. See the full UK hotspots analysis for the national picture and methodology.
Need this cut a different way? A junction’s full history, cyclist or pedestrian casualties on their own, or a before-and-after on a scheme: we produce those, free for community groups, campaigners and journalists.
Bournemouth over 5 years
Collisions per year in Bournemouth
2025: 458 (down 6.9% on the year before) · peak 508 in 2022 · -1.3% across the period
Axis clipped to the data range to show year-on-year movement.
2022 was Bournemouth’s worst year of the period with 508 collisions, against 458 in 2025. Of 2025’s 510 casualties, 109 were killed or seriously injured (3 deaths, 106 serious).
Build the Bournemouth story from this page
Every line below is computed from the official DfT STATS19 dataset and updates when new data is released — copy, check, publish. Free to use with a link to this page as the source.
- “Police recorded 458 road collisions in Bournemouth in 2025, injuring or killing 510 people (DfT STATS19).
- “2022 was Bournemouth's worst year of the last 5 (508 collisions, against 458 in 2025).
- “Bournemouth's collision rate is 233 per 100,000 residents, against an average of 220 across the 125 areas we track.
- “93 collisions involved pedestrians, 104 collisions involved cyclists, 100 collisions involved motorcyclists — with 91 of those people killed or seriously injured.
- “39 collisions in Bournemouth involved a child casualty in 2025.
Attribution: “Analysis by Swift Assist (swiftassistuk.co.uk) of DfT STATS19 data” with a link to this page. Methodology: how we process the data.
Bournemouth's roads are Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole's responsibility
Collisions above are counted for Bournemouth. The body that maintains those roads, sets the speed limits and decides which junctions get fixed is Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole — so that is the level at which the record can be compared with anywhere else in Britain.
Per mile driven
22 of 192
Per resident
74 of 188
Risk band
Above average
Five-year trend
broadly flat
Those two numbers disagree, and that is the story. Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole sits 74 of 188 measured per resident but 22 of 192 measured per mile actually driven — a gap of 52 places. Almost every published comparison quietly uses the per-head measure, which flatters places that carry a lot of through-traffic. On the measure that accounts for how much driving actually happens here, the record is worse than the usual figure suggests.
The full record for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole — severity-adjusted casualties, the breakdown of who is being hurt, the darkness and ice profile, and a comparison against its ONS statistical neighbours rather than the national average — is on its own page.
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole’s full road risk record →What actually changes the odds in Bournemouth
Data is only useful if it changes what you do. These three are picked from Bournemouth’s own figures above, each with the number that prompted it. Every guide explains how the thing works before it suggests buying anything, and most cost less than a third of a typical insurance excess.
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Bournemouth records 166 vehicle crimes per 100,000 residents, above the median of the towns we track. Keyless relay theft is the leading route into modern cars, and a signal-blocking pouch ends that method outright for under a tenner.
How it works →
Helmet camera
£50–£200
23% of collisions in Bournemouth involve someone on a bike. In a disputed pull-out, footage from the rider's viewpoint is what settles liability.
How it works →
Steering wheel lock
£40–£70
Vehicle theft is target selection: thieves work a street and take the easiest car. A visible attack-rated bar moves your car down that list before anyone touches it.
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