Unitary authority · England
Darlington road collision data
Between 2021 and 2025, the police recorded 599 injury collisions in Darlington's highway authority area, 203 of them fatal or serious. These are the published STATS19 figures, which also include motorways and trunk roads in the area.
- Injury collisions
- 599
- 2021–2025
- Casualties
- 738
- People injured or killed
- Fatal collisions
- 9
- 194 serious, 396 slight
- Vulnerable road users
- 54%
- of people killed or seriously injured
Collisions by year and severity
In 2025, Darlington recorded 46 fatal or serious collisions, 13% above its average of 41 a year over 2021–2025.
| Year | Fatal | Serious | Slight | Total | Casualties | Fatal or serious |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 0 | 38 | 84 | 122 | 154 |
38
|
| 2022 | 4 | 38 | 72 | 114 | 136 |
42
|
| 2023 | 3 | 32 | 72 | 107 | 131 |
35
|
| 2024 | 2 | 40 | 77 | 119 | 156 |
42
|
| 2025 | 0 | 46 | 91 | 137 | 161 |
46
|
| 2021–2025 | 9 | 194 | 396 | 599 | 738 | 203 |
Casualties by road user
738 people were hurt in these collisions: 9 killed, 209 seriously injured and 520 slightly injured. Pedestrians, pedal cyclists and motorcyclists made up 54% of those killed or seriously injured.
| Road user | Casualties | Share | Killed or seriously injured | Share of KSI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pedestrians | 120 | 16.3% | 55 | 25.2% |
| Pedal cyclists | 121 | 16.4% | 34 | 15.6% |
| Motorcyclists | 59 | 8.0% | 29 | 13.3% |
| All road users | 738 | 100% | 218 | 100% |
Roads with the most collisions
Classified roads in Darlington, by injury collisions recorded on them in 2021–2025.
- A167 88 collisions · 33 fatal or serious
- A68 37 collisions · 18 fatal or serious
- B6280 33 collisions · 14 fatal or serious
- A67 29 collisions · 14 fatal or serious
- B6279 19 collisions · 6 fatal or serious
- A66 18 collisions · 6 fatal or serious
- A1(M) 16 collisions · 3 fatal or serious
- A1150 13 collisions · 4 fatal or serious
- A6072 5 collisions · 3 fatal or serious
- B6275 3 collisions · 2 fatal or serious
Areas within Darlington
Area pages with maps, hotspots and every collision, by collisions in 2021–2025.
How to get a formal collision extract from Darlington
The council's road safety or traffic team holds the full police records for its area. A formal extract can add what the published data leaves out: contributory factors, the officer's description of each collision and the current year's provisional records. Developers, consultants and solicitors usually pay for it.
Check Darlington's website for current fees, or contact its road safety team. Councils usually charge for extracts and send a quote before they start.
Source: Department for Transport road safety data (STATS19), 2021–2025, published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Collisions are counted against the local highway authority area recorded by the police. Casualty severities are as recorded at the time and are not adjusted.