Road crashes in Waltham Forest

17,120 recorded collisions since 2000.

Waltham Forest has recorded 17,120 road collisions since 2000, 95 of them fatal and 2,022 causing serious injury. That makes it the 56th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 12% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 5.5 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 49% since 2000, from 987 to 499 in 2024. The A112 is the most affected road locally, with 2,958 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.