Road crashes in Staffordshire Moorlands

5,687 recorded collisions since 2000.

Staffordshire Moorlands has recorded 5,687 road collisions since 2000, 108 of them fatal and 624 causing serious injury. That makes it the 280th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 13% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 19 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 65% since 2000, from 386 to 134 in 2024. The A53 is the most affected road locally, with 614 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.