Road crashes in Leicester

21,567 recorded collisions since 2000.

Leicester has recorded 21,567 road collisions since 2000, 142 of them fatal and 2,035 causing serious injury. That makes it the 35th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 10% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 6.6 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 63% since 2000, from 1,215 to 448 in 2024. The A47 is the most affected road locally, with 1,598 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.