Road crashes in Newcastle-under-Lyme

7,345 recorded collisions since 2000.

Newcastle-under-Lyme has recorded 7,345 road collisions since 2000, 123 of them fatal and 622 causing serious injury. That makes it the 215th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 10% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 16.7 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 76% since 2000, from 516 to 122 in 2024. The A34 is the most affected road locally, with 857 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.