Road risk in Rutland
The official road casualty record for Rutland, from DfT STATS19.
Police recorded 43 injury collisions in Rutland in 2025, hurting 58 people, of whom 15 were killed or seriously injured.
Not ranked. Rutland is held out of our national tablebecause it recorded 15 killed or seriously injured, below the 20 needed for the derived percentages to mean anything. Every figure here is the real recorded number. At this size the derived percentages describe chance more than they describe the place, so there is no rank attached to them. How the floors work.
- Collisions
- 43 in 2025
- People hurt
- 58 casualties
- Killed or seriously injured
- 15
- Killed
- 4
- KSI per billion vehicle miles
- 33 (median 80.5)
- KSI, three-year average
- 13 a year
- Severity-adjusted KSI, 2025
- 18 (recorded: 15)
- Severity-adjusted KSI, three-year average
- 14.7 a year (recorded: 13)
- KSI per 100,000 residents
- 36
- Population
- 41,629
Compiled by Stephen Hall, Data lead, Swift Assist. Source: DfT STATS19 and DfT road traffic estimates (2025), OGL v3. Updated 2026-10-08.
Five years of collisions in Rutland
Across 2021–2025, recorded collisions were up 4.9%, with 2025 the worst year of the period at 43 collisions.
Collisions per year in Rutland
2025: 43 (up 30.3% on the year before) · peak 43 in 2025 · +4.9% across the period
Axis clipped to the data range to show year-on-year movement.
Vehicle crime · year ending June 2026
Vehicle crime in Rutland
3.57
offences per 1,000 residents
148
offences recorded, 12 months
153
of 287 areas, worst first
Rutland recorded 3.57 vehicle offences per 1,000 residents, below the England and Wales rate of 5.04.
Rate calculated from 148 offences and a population of 41,400 (ONS mid-2024), both taken from the same ONS release. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Office for National Statistics, Crime in England and Wales: Police Force Area data tables, year ending June 2026; police recorded crime collected by the Home Office.
Pedestrians, cyclists and riders in Rutland
These are the road users with the least protection when something goes wrong, and they carry a disproportionate share of the serious injuries. Across 43 collisions in Rutland, the three groups appear 15 times between them — an involvement rate of 34.9%.
| Road user | Collisions | Share of all collisions |
|---|---|---|
| Pedestrians | 2 | 4.7% |
| Cyclists | 2 | 4.7% |
| Motorcyclists | 11 | 25.6% |
A single collision can involve more than one of these groups and is then counted in each row, so the rows do not add up to a share of the total.
When collisions happen in Rutland
DfT records the light level and road surface at every collision, but publishes neither below national level. These are Rutland’s own shares over 105 collisions, with the national figure beside each one for comparison.
| Share of collisions | Rutland | National | How it reads |
|---|---|---|---|
| In darknessAny collision where the officer recorded darkness, lit or unlit. | 33.3% | 28.7% | above the national figure |
| In darkness, no street lightingThe rural lighting picture rather than the urban speeding one. | 24.8% | 6.3% | more than three times the national figure |
| On a wet road surfaceWet, damp or standing water at the scene. | 21.9% | 24.5% | below the national figure |
| On snow or iceRare everywhere, and concentrated in a handful of authorities. | 3.8% | 1.4% | more than double the national figure |
The winter effect. Collisions in Rutland run 25% lower from November to January than from May to July — against 4.5% lower nationally. That is 21 collisions against 28.
What this does not tell you
- A share is not a rate. A high darkness share means darkness accounts for more of Rutland’s collisions — not that its roads are more dangerous overall. Read it alongside the casualties-per-mile-driven figure above.
- Condition is recorded, not tested. The officer records the surface and light level at the scene. It is an observation, not a measurement, and it is not a finding that the condition caused the collision.
- Exposure is not controlled for. Fewer people travel at 3am than at 3pm, so a collision in darkness is drawn from a smaller pool of journeys. Without hourly traffic counts, these shares describe when collisions happen rather than how risky an hour is.
Every authority compared on the same measures: winter road risk across Britain.
Road risk in Rutland, answered
How dangerous are the roads in Rutland?
In the latest official DfT figures, 43 road collisions in Rutland injured or killed 58 people, 15 of them killed or seriously injured. Rutland is not ranked in our national table because it recorded 15 killed or seriously injured, below the 20 needed for the derived percentages to mean anything.
Are road casualties in Rutland rising or falling?
Across 2021–2025, recorded collisions in Rutland were up 4.9%, with 2025 the worst year of the period at 43 collisions. Year-to-year movement in a single authority is noisy, so the five-year direction carries more than any single year's change.
Who is being hurt on Rutland's roads?
In Rutland there were 2 collisions involving pedestrians, 2 involving cyclists and 11 involving motorcyclists, out of 43 in total. Added together that is an involvement rate of 34.9%, though a collision involving two of those groups is counted in both figures, so it is a comparable index rather than a clean share.
Who is responsible for road safety in Rutland?
Rutland is a unitary authority, and is the highway authority for its own roads. That means it sets local speed limits, designs junctions and crossings, and decides safety scheme spending. Motorways and most trunk roads are managed separately by National Highways in England, Transport Scotland, or the Welsh Government, so the worst road in an area is often not the council's to change. Enforcement sits with the local police force.
Where does this data come from?
DfT STATS19, the record police complete at the scene of every injury collision, published annually under the Open Government Licence, combined with DfT's own road traffic estimates for the mileage denominator. Collision, casualty and KSI counts on this page are for 2025; only the trend compares 2021–2025. STATS19 counts collisions police attended and recorded, so collisions never reported do not appear, and under-reporting is known to be worst for cyclists and for slight injuries.
What actually changes the odds in Rutland
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