M27 ranks among motorways where drivers most likely to crash in UK

The M27 has been ranked as among the motorways where drivers are most likely to be involved in a crash in the UK.

New research has revealed the M27 in fifth place in the list with Bradford’s M606 ranking number one.

The study, conducted by used car dealership Beck Evans, measured every injury collision recorded on a British motorway between 2021 and 2025 against how many miles of road each motorway covers to determine where a crash resulting in injury is most likely to happen.

The M27 saw 2.40 collisions per mile per year with 385 total collisions on the 31 mile motorway. The Vauxhall Corsa was the most frequently involved car model, with 30 involvements.

The Ford Fiesta is the most involved car model in motorway injury collisions, with 928 involvements out of a total of 16,615 across all motorways in the study from 2021 to 2025, meaning the model was involved in 5.6%.

The Vauxhall Corsa is second, with 869 involvements, 5.2% of all motorway injury collisions studied.

The Volkswagen Golf comes third, with 811 involvements, equal to 4.9% of all collisions analysed.

Sam Evans, director of Beck Evans, said: “Three of the four most crash-dense motorways in the country are shorter than five miles, and none of the three carries a major airport or a stretch of open rural carriageway. The pattern running through the whole table is that short motorways and city ring road sections take the top places, while longer motorways fill the bottom.

“The models that are involved in the highest numbers of injury collisions, like the Ford Focus and the Vauxhall Corsa, appearing so often does not mean the cars themselves are inherently dangerous. They are hugely popular car models in the UK, especially among younger drivers, and if more people are driving them, they are inevitably going to end up in more collisions.

"Popular models are popular for a reason, and one of them is that parts are cheap and every garage in the country knows how to fix them. The flip side is that high volume cars have often had a harder life, so with any of the models near the top of that table I would spend the money on a full history check and a proper inspection before you buy one second-hand.

"Ask for the service book, ask what the last owner used it for, and take a long test drive at motorway speed rather than round the block, since a car that has spent five years commuting on the M25 will feel very different to one that has done the same mileage on quiet roads."