Road crashes in Kirklees

25,284 recorded collisions since 2000.

Kirklees has recorded 25,284 road collisions since 2000, 252 of them fatal and 3,805 causing serious injury. That makes it the 22nd-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 16% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 10 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 62% since 2000, from 1,611 to 605 in 2024. The A62 is the most affected road locally, with 2,280 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.