Metropolitan borough · England
Sunderland road collision data
Between 2021 and 2025, the police recorded 1,638 injury collisions in Sunderland's highway authority area, 362 of them fatal or serious. These are the published STATS19 figures, which also include motorways and trunk roads in the area.
- Injury collisions
- 1,638
- 2021–2025
- Casualties
- 2,124
- People injured or killed
- Fatal collisions
- 28
- 334 serious, 1,276 slight
- Vulnerable road users
- 62%
- of people killed or seriously injured
Collisions by year and severity
In 2025, Sunderland recorded 80 fatal or serious collisions, 10% above its average of 72 a year over 2021–2025.
| Year | Fatal | Serious | Slight | Total | Casualties | Fatal or serious |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | 65 | 255 | 325 | 426 |
70
|
| 2022 | 7 | 65 | 250 | 322 | 406 |
72
|
| 2023 | 4 | 68 | 252 | 324 | 438 |
72
|
| 2024 | 5 | 63 | 267 | 335 | 424 |
68
|
| 2025 | 7 | 73 | 252 | 332 | 430 |
80
|
| 2021–2025 | 28 | 334 | 1,276 | 1,638 | 2,124 | 362 |
Casualties by road user
2,124 people were hurt in these collisions: 30 killed, 359 seriously injured and 1,735 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 | 400 | 18.8% | 117 | 30.1% |
| Pedal cyclists | 196 | 9.2% | 51 | 13.1% |
| Motorcyclists | 160 | 7.5% | 74 | 19.0% |
| All road users | 2,124 | 100% | 389 | 100% |
Roads with the most collisions
Classified roads in Sunderland, by injury collisions recorded on them in 2021–2025.
- A183 104 collisions · 24 fatal or serious
- A1231 97 collisions · 21 fatal or serious
- A182 80 collisions · 17 fatal or serious
- A1018 69 collisions · 13 fatal or serious
- A690 66 collisions · 21 fatal or serious
- A19 65 collisions · 18 fatal or serious
- B1405 46 collisions · 12 fatal or serious
- B1286 39 collisions · 10 fatal or serious
- A1290 37 collisions · 5 fatal or serious
- A195 29 collisions · 9 fatal or serious
Areas within Sunderland
Area pages with maps, hotspots and every collision, by collisions in 2021–2025.
How to get a formal collision extract from Sunderland
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 Sunderland'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.