Road crashes in North Yorkshire

42,545 recorded collisions since 2000.

North Yorkshire has recorded 42,545 road collisions since 2000, 1,119 of them fatal and 9,536 causing serious injury. That makes it the 3rd-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 25% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 26.3 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 60% since 2000, from 2,576 to 1,043 in 2024. The A59 is the most affected road locally, with 2,142 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.