Road crashes in Worcester

4,373 recorded collisions since 2000.

Worcester has recorded 4,373 road collisions since 2000, 29 of them fatal and 567 causing serious injury. That makes it the 317th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 14% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 6.6 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 68% since 2000, from 267 to 85 in 2024. The A38 is the most affected road locally, with 684 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.