Road crashes in Tamworth

3,419 recorded collisions since 2000.

Tamworth has recorded 3,419 road collisions since 2000, 33 of them fatal and 255 causing serious injury. That makes it the 335th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 8% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 9.7 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 69% since 2000, from 226 to 70 in 2024. The A51 is the most affected road locally, with 599 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.