Accident hotspots in Bristol: where crashes cluster
Police recorded 753 road collisions in Bristol in 2025. We mapped every one to find the junctions and roads where they concentrate.
44.7
Road Risk Score
Bristol ranks 77 of 125 towns we score — band C, around average
42.8 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents, 202.1 vehicle crimes per 100,000, 63.5% of collisions involving someone outside a car, and a five-year trend of -9.8%. How the score works.
Bristol ward by ward
Every fatal and serious collision in Bristol matched to its council ward: 645 people killed or seriously injured across 34 wards, with an interactive map, every collision plotted, the roads driving each ward’s total, and a CSV built for briefing notes. Written so a single page can be sent to a ward councillor.
Open the ward analysisVulnerable road users in Bristol (2025)
145 of Bristol's 753 collisions (19%) involved pedestrians; 203 of Bristol's 753 collisions (27%) involved cyclists; 130 of Bristol's 753 collisions (17%) involved motorcyclists. Together those collisions left 158 people killed or seriously injured.
| Road user | Collisions | Share of all collisions | Killed or seriously injured | Serious-outcome rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pedestrians | 145 | 19% | 44 | 30% |
| Cyclists | 203 | 27% | 65 | 32% |
| Motorcyclists | 130 | 17% | 49 | 38% |
56 of Bristol’s collisions in 2025 involved a child casualty.
Bristol’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
Bristol recorded 753 police-reported collisions in 2025 — falling (-10.5% on 2024), or about 157 per 100,000 residents. Its most stubborn risk is Cheltenham Road, Cotham, a hotspot in 5 of the last 5 years.
753
Collisions in Bristol (2025)
844
People injured or killed
-10.5%
Change vs 2024
~763
Modelled collisions in 2026 on current trend
Bristol’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.
Cheltenham Road, Cotham
A38
15 collisions across 5 hotspot years · 17 casualties · 1 serious or fatal
Church Road, Barton Hill
A420
14 collisions across 5 hotspot years · 16 casualties · 2 serious or fatal
Stokes Croft, Broadmead
A38
11 collisions across 5 hotspot years · 11 casualties · 2 serious or fatal
Bristol’s worst accident spots
| # | Location | Road | Collisions | Casualties | Serious | Fatal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Westbury Lane, Sea Mills | B4057 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| 2 | Bridewell Street, Broadmead | A38 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0 |
| 3 | Southmead Road, Southmead | B4056 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 0 |
| 4 | Whitehall Road, Whitehall | B4465 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 |
| 5 | Temple Gate, Redcliffe | A4044 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 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, Bristol’s rate of 157 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 Bristol in 2025: 145 collisions involved a pedestrian, 203 a cyclist and 130 a motorcyclist — overall, 157.2 collisions per 100,000 residents.
Area definition: figures cover Bristol council district (ONS). 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.
Bristol over 5 years
Collisions per year in Bristol
2025: 753 (down 10.5% on the year before) · peak 873 in 2022 · -9.8% across the period
Axis clipped to the data range to show year-on-year movement.
2022 was Bristol’s worst year of the period with 873 collisions, against 753 in 2025. Of 2025’s 844 casualties, 205 were killed or seriously injured (1 deaths, 204 serious).
Build the Bristol 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 753 road collisions in Bristol in 2025, injuring or killing 844 people (DfT STATS19).
- “2022 was Bristol's worst year of the last 5 (873 collisions, against 753 in 2025).
- “Bristol's collision rate is 157 per 100,000 residents, against an average of 220 across the 125 areas we track.
- “145 collisions involved pedestrians, 203 collisions involved cyclists, 130 collisions involved motorcyclists — with 158 of those people killed or seriously injured.
- “56 collisions in Bristol 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.
Bristol's roads are Bristol, City of's responsibility
Collisions above are counted for Bristol. The body that maintains those roads, sets the speed limits and decides which junctions get fixed is Bristol, City of — so that is the level at which the record can be compared with anywhere else in Britain.
Per mile driven
48 of 192
Per resident
67 of 188
Risk band
Above average
Five-year trend
down 9.8%
The full record for Bristol, City of — 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.
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Ward-level analysis with every collision mapped, for councillors and campaigners.
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Where cyclists are hurt across Britain, from the same records.
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