Road crashes in Hinckley and Bosworth

5,692 recorded collisions since 2000.

Hinckley and Bosworth has recorded 5,692 road collisions since 2000, 100 of them fatal and 735 causing serious injury. That makes it the 279th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 15% 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 70% since 2000, from 415 to 123 in 2024. The A47 is the most affected road locally, with 461 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.