Road crashes in Redcar and Cleveland

5,236 recorded collisions since 2000.

Redcar and Cleveland has recorded 5,236 road collisions since 2000, 92 of them fatal and 967 causing serious injury. That makes it the 295th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 20% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 17.6 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 65% since 2000, from 324 to 113 in 2024. The A174 is the most affected road locally, with 706 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.