Road crashes in Derby

16,259 recorded collisions since 2000.

Derby has recorded 16,259 road collisions since 2000, 107 of them fatal and 2,140 causing serious injury. That makes it the 66th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 14% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 6.6 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 45% since 2000, from 765 to 419 in 2024. The A5111 is the most affected road locally, with 1,453 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.