Road crashes in Middlesbrough

7,627 recorded collisions since 2000.

Middlesbrough has recorded 7,627 road collisions since 2000, 68 of them fatal and 1,064 causing serious injury. That makes it the 202nd-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 15% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 8.9 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 69% since 2000, from 542 to 170 in 2024. The A172 is the most affected road locally, with 716 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.