Accident hotspots in Glasgow: where crashes cluster
Police recorded 600 road collisions in Glasgow in 2025. We mapped every one to find the junctions and roads where they concentrate.
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Road Risk Score
Glasgow ranks 92 of 125 towns we score — band C, around average
37.5 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents, 50.3% of collisions involving someone outside a car, and a five-year trend of +8.7%. How the score works.
Glasgow ward by ward
Every fatal and serious collision in Glasgow matched to its council ward: 1,163 people killed or seriously injured across 23 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 Glasgow (2025)
161 of Glasgow's 600 collisions (27%) involved pedestrians; 90 of Glasgow's 600 collisions (15%) involved cyclists; 51 of Glasgow's 600 collisions (9%) involved motorcyclists. Together those collisions left 138 people killed or seriously injured.
| Road user | Collisions | Share of all collisions | Killed or seriously injured | Serious-outcome rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pedestrians | 161 | 27% | 78 | 48% |
| Cyclists | 90 | 15% | 29 | 32% |
| Motorcyclists | 51 | 9% | 31 | 61% |
73 of Glasgow’s collisions in 2025 involved a child casualty.
Glasgow’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
Glasgow recorded 600 police-reported collisions in 2025 — falling (-3.5% on 2024), or about 95 per 100,000 residents. No single junction dominates — risk is spread across the area below.
600
Collisions in Glasgow (2025)
738
People injured or killed
-3.5%
Change vs 2024
~623
Modelled collisions in 2026 on current trend
Glasgow’s worst accident spots
| # | Location | Road | Collisions | Casualties | Serious | Fatal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trongate, City Centre | Local road | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| 2 | Newton Street, Anderston | M8 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 0 |
| 3 | A736, Nitshill | A726 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| 4 | Lammermoor Avenue, Cardonald | A761 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Clyde Street, Gorbals | A814 | 2 | 2 | 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, Glasgow’s rate of 95 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 Glasgow in 2025: 161 collisions involved a pedestrian, 90 a cyclist and 51 a motorcyclist — overall, 94.9 collisions per 100,000 residents.
Area definition: figures cover Glasgow 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.
Glasgow over 5 years
Collisions per year in Glasgow
2025: 600 (down 3.5% on the year before) · peak 622 in 2024 · +8.7% across the period
Axis clipped to the data range to show year-on-year movement.
2024 was Glasgow’s worst year of the period with 622 collisions, against 552 in 2021. Of 2025’s 738 casualties, 237 were killed or seriously injured (8 deaths, 229 serious).
Build the Glasgow 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 600 road collisions in Glasgow in 2025, injuring or killing 738 people (DfT STATS19).
- “2024 was Glasgow's worst year of the last 5 (622 collisions, against 552 in 2021).
- “Glasgow's collision rate is 95 per 100,000 residents, against an average of 220 across the 125 areas we track.
- “161 collisions involved pedestrians, 90 collisions involved cyclists, 51 collisions involved motorcyclists — with 138 of those people killed or seriously injured.
- “73 collisions in Glasgow 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.
Glasgow's roads are Glasgow City's responsibility
Collisions above are counted for Glasgow. The body that maintains those roads, sets the speed limits and decides which junctions get fixed is Glasgow City — so that is the level at which the record can be compared with anywhere else in Britain.
Per mile driven
44 of 192
Per resident
91 of 188
Risk band
Above average
Five-year trend
up 8.7%
Those two numbers disagree, and that is the story. Glasgow City sits 91 of 188 measured per resident but 44 of 192 measured per mile actually driven — a gap of 47 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 Glasgow City — 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.
Glasgow City’s full road risk record →What actually changes the odds in Glasgow
Data is only useful if it changes what you do. These three are picked from Glasgow’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.
Helmet camera
£50–£200
15% of collisions in Glasgow involve someone on a bike. In a disputed pull-out, footage from the rider's viewpoint is what settles liability.
How it works →
Dashcam (parking mode)
£50–£150
27% of collisions here involve a pedestrian, and those are the cases most often argued over. Footage removes the argument.
How it works →
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UK accident hotspots (national)
Britain's 20 worst collision clusters, mapped from official data.
Read more →Glasgow collisions by ward
Ward-level analysis with every collision mapped, for councillors and campaigners.
Read more →Cyclist collision map (national)
Where cyclists are hurt across Britain, from the same records.
Read more →Free data for campaigners
Junction histories, corridor studies and custom cuts, free for community groups.
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