Road crashes in Stoke-on-Trent

16,682 recorded collisions since 2000.

Stoke-on-Trent has recorded 16,682 road collisions since 2000, 146 of them fatal and 1,335 causing serious injury. That makes it the 61st-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 9% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 8.8 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 71% since 2000, from 1,148 to 336 in 2024. The A50 is the most affected road locally, with 2,468 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.