Road crashes in Harborough

4,925 recorded collisions since 2000.

Harborough has recorded 4,925 road collisions since 2000, 213 of them fatal and 728 causing serious injury. That makes it the 309th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 19% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 43.2 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 78% since 2000, from 295 to 64 in 2024. The M1 is the most affected road locally, with 577 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.