Road crashes in Chesterfield

6,092 recorded collisions since 2000.

Chesterfield has recorded 6,092 road collisions since 2000, 43 of them fatal and 775 causing serious injury. That makes it the 263rd-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 13% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 7.1 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 66% since 2000, from 394 to 133 in 2024. The A619 is the most affected road locally, with 871 collisions.

Figures cover collisions reported to police (STATS19) from 2000 onward; severity definitions changed over time, so treat long-range trends with care. Source: DfT STATS19, Open Government Licence v3.0.