Road crashes in Sheffield

32,416 recorded collisions since 2000.

Sheffield has recorded 32,416 road collisions since 2000, 307 of them fatal and 5,458 causing serious injury. That makes it the 10th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 18% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 9.5 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 61% since 2000, from 1,961 to 766 in 2024. The A61 is the most affected road locally, with 3,207 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.