Road crashes in King's Lynn and West Norfolk

8,702 recorded collisions since 2000.

King's Lynn and West Norfolk has recorded 8,702 road collisions since 2000, 248 of them fatal and 1,602 causing serious injury. That makes it the 173rd-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 21% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 28.5 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 33% since 2000, from 434 to 292 in 2024. The A148 is the most affected road locally, with 975 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.