Road crashes in Derbyshire Dales

6,051 recorded collisions since 2000.

Derbyshire Dales has recorded 6,051 road collisions since 2000, 180 of them fatal and 1,357 causing serious injury. That makes it the 265th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 25% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 29.7 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 56% since 2000, from 362 to 158 in 2024. The A6 is the most affected road locally, with 933 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.