Road crashes in Shropshire

16,941 recorded collisions since 2000.

Shropshire has recorded 16,941 road collisions since 2000, 496 of them fatal and 3,136 causing serious injury. That makes it the 58th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 21% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 29.3 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 59% since 2000, from 960 to 389 in 2024. The A49 is the most affected road locally, with 1,212 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.