Road crashes in Newham

21,085 recorded collisions since 2000.

Newham has recorded 21,085 road collisions since 2000, 96 of them fatal and 2,329 causing serious injury. That makes it the 38th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 12% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 4.6 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 31% since 2000, from 1,111 to 767 in 2024. The A118 is the most affected road locally, with 2,229 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.