Southend and Basildon's most dangerous roads revealed

Created by two road safety experts, CrashMap highlights the location of every collision on the roads in a given period.

The detailed tool shows you not only the severity of the crash – slight, serious or fatal – but also when it took place, the number of vehicles involved and the number of casualties reported.

The data used is taken directly from official government statistics, which is based on records submitted to them by the police.

Hovering the map over Southend, the website reports more than 1,982 incidents have taken place between 2016 and 2020.

This map shows the crashes reported in the centre of Southend

Basildon, meanwhile, amassed 2,237 incidents. There were 408 incidents reported in the Canvey area.

In Wickford there were 544 incidents and in South Benfleet 204 incidents.

During the time period there were 66 fatal accidents across the area.

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Map shows where every fatal crash has happened across south Essex between 2016 and 2020

A further 1,129 were considered to be serious.

Of all the incidents reported 536 involved a child casualty and 532 involved a cyclist.