Road crashes in Newark and Sherwood

8,860 recorded collisions since 2000.

Newark and Sherwood has recorded 8,860 road collisions since 2000, 211 of them fatal and 1,830 causing serious injury. That makes it the 164th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 23% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 23.8 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 55% since 2000, from 503 to 224 in 2024. The A46 is the most affected road locally, with 730 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.