Road crashes in West Northamptonshire

21,309 recorded collisions since 2000.

West Northamptonshire has recorded 21,309 road collisions since 2000, 524 of them fatal and 4,295 causing serious injury. That makes it the 37th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 23% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 24.6 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 43% since 2000, from 1,309 to 751 in 2024. The A508 is the most affected road locally, with 1,658 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.