Road crashes in Gateshead

13,195 recorded collisions since 2000.

Gateshead has recorded 13,195 road collisions since 2000, 123 of them fatal and 1,573 causing serious injury. That makes it the 90th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 13% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 9.3 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 68% since 2000, from 800 to 253 in 2024. The A1 is the most affected road locally, with 1,495 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.