Metropolitan borough · England
Wakefield road collision data
Between 2021 and 2025, the police recorded 2,889 injury collisions in Wakefield's highway authority area, 859 of them fatal or serious. These are the published STATS19 figures, which also include motorways and trunk roads in the area.
- Injury collisions
- 2,889
- 2021–2025
- Casualties
- 3,748
- People injured or killed
- Fatal collisions
- 41
- 818 serious, 2,030 slight
- Vulnerable road users
- 48%
- of people killed or seriously injured
Collisions by year and severity
In 2025, Wakefield recorded 167 fatal or serious collisions, 3% below its average of 172 a year over 2021–2025.
| Year | Fatal | Serious | Slight | Total | Casualties | Fatal or serious |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | 141 | 337 | 483 | 633 |
146
|
| 2022 | 10 | 161 | 443 | 614 | 826 |
171
|
| 2023 | 7 | 181 | 460 | 648 | 813 |
188
|
| 2024 | 9 | 178 | 402 | 589 | 754 |
187
|
| 2025 | 10 | 157 | 388 | 555 | 722 |
167
|
| 2021–2025 | 41 | 818 | 2,030 | 2,889 | 3,748 | 859 |
Casualties by road user
3,748 people were hurt in these collisions: 48 killed, 928 seriously injured and 2,772 slightly injured. Pedestrians, pedal cyclists and motorcyclists made up 48% of those killed or seriously injured.
| Road user | Casualties | Share | Killed or seriously injured | Share of KSI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pedestrians | 573 | 15.3% | 202 | 20.7% |
| Pedal cyclists | 305 | 8.1% | 98 | 10.0% |
| Motorcyclists | 363 | 9.7% | 171 | 17.5% |
| All road users | 3,748 | 100% | 976 | 100% |
Roads with the most collisions
Classified roads in Wakefield, by injury collisions recorded on them in 2021–2025.
- A638 214 collisions · 56 fatal or serious
- A645 142 collisions · 55 fatal or serious
- A642 126 collisions · 35 fatal or serious
- A61 121 collisions · 29 fatal or serious
- A639 115 collisions · 24 fatal or serious
- M62 69 collisions · 17 fatal or serious
- M1 67 collisions · 15 fatal or serious
- A636 63 collisions · 11 fatal or serious
- A655 62 collisions · 19 fatal or serious
- A1 57 collisions · 18 fatal or serious
Areas within Wakefield
Area pages with maps, hotspots and every collision, by collisions in 2021–2025.
How to get a formal collision extract from Wakefield
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 Wakefield'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.