Road crashes in Wakefield

19,293 recorded collisions since 2000.

Wakefield has recorded 19,293 road collisions since 2000, 318 of them fatal and 3,276 causing serious injury. That makes it the 47th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 19% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 16.5 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 47% since 2000, from 1,117 to 589 in 2024. The A638 is the most affected road locally, with 1,670 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.