Road crashes in Wolverhampton

15,089 recorded collisions since 2000.

Wolverhampton has recorded 15,089 road collisions since 2000, 125 of them fatal and 1,945 causing serious injury. That makes it the 74th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 14% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 8.3 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 62% since 2000, from 952 to 358 in 2024. The A41 is the most affected road locally, with 1,224 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.