Road crashes in Sunderland

15,403 recorded collisions since 2000.

Sunderland has recorded 15,403 road collisions since 2000, 135 of them fatal and 2,020 causing serious injury. That makes it the 73rd-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 14% 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 65% since 2000, from 963 to 335 in 2024. The A1231 is the most affected road locally, with 1,239 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.