Road crashes in East Staffordshire

8,033 recorded collisions since 2000.

East Staffordshire has recorded 8,033 road collisions since 2000, 141 of them fatal and 712 causing serious injury. That makes it the 186th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 11% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 17.6 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 66% since 2000, from 504 to 171 in 2024. The A511 is the most affected road locally, with 718 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.