Unitary authority · England
Stoke-on-Trent road collision data
Between 2021 and 2025, the police recorded 1,185 injury collisions in Stoke-on-Trent's highway authority area, 271 of them fatal or serious. These are the published STATS19 figures, which also include motorways and trunk roads in the area.
- Injury collisions
- 1,185
- 2021–2025
- Casualties
- 1,495
- People injured or killed
- Fatal collisions
- 26
- 245 serious, 914 slight
- Vulnerable road users
- 62%
- of people killed or seriously injured
Collisions by year and severity
In 2025, Stoke-on-Trent recorded 80 fatal or serious collisions, 48% above its average of 54 a year over 2021–2025.
| Year | Fatal | Serious | Slight | Total | Casualties | Fatal or serious |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 3 | 46 | 152 | 201 | 248 |
49
|
| 2022 | 6 | 29 | 63 | 98 | 123 |
35
|
| 2023 | 6 | 40 | 145 | 191 | 244 |
46
|
| 2024 | 5 | 56 | 275 | 336 | 442 |
61
|
| 2025 | 6 | 74 | 279 | 359 | 438 |
80
|
| 2021–2025 | 26 | 245 | 914 | 1,185 | 1,495 | 271 |
Casualties by road user
1,495 people were hurt in these collisions: 26 killed, 265 seriously injured and 1,204 slightly injured. Pedestrians, pedal cyclists and motorcyclists made up 62% of those killed or seriously injured.
| Road user | Casualties | Share | Killed or seriously injured | Share of KSI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pedestrians | 333 | 22.3% | 94 | 32.3% |
| Pedal cyclists | 109 | 7.3% | 25 | 8.6% |
| Motorcyclists | 146 | 9.8% | 61 | 21.0% |
| All road users | 1,495 | 100% | 291 | 100% |
Roads with the most collisions
Classified roads in Stoke-on-Trent, by injury collisions recorded on them in 2021–2025.
- A50 163 collisions · 27 fatal or serious
- A5272 77 collisions · 23 fatal or serious
- A52 63 collisions · 22 fatal or serious
- A53 40 collisions · 8 fatal or serious
- B5051 34 collisions · 4 fatal or serious
- A5007 30 collisions · 8 fatal or serious
- A520 27 collisions · 9 fatal or serious
- A5006 26 collisions · 8 fatal or serious
- A34 26 collisions · 3 fatal or serious
- A500 26 collisions · 3 fatal or serious
Areas within Stoke-on-Trent
Area pages with maps, hotspots and every collision, by collisions in 2021–2025.
How to get a formal collision extract from Stoke-on-Trent
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 Stoke-on-Trent'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.