Road crashes in Telford and Wrekin

7,318 recorded collisions since 2000.

Telford and Wrekin has recorded 7,318 road collisions since 2000, 96 of them fatal and 1,096 causing serious injury. That makes it the 218th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 16% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 13.1 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 69% since 2000, from 421 to 129 in 2024. The A442 is the most affected road locally, with 689 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.