Metropolitan borough · England
Wirral road collision data
Between 2021 and 2025, the police recorded 1,938 injury collisions in Wirral's highway authority area, 459 of them fatal or serious. These are the published STATS19 figures, which also include motorways and trunk roads in the area.
- Injury collisions
- 1,938
- 2021–2025
- Casualties
- 2,399
- People injured or killed
- Fatal collisions
- 23
- 436 serious, 1,479 slight
- Vulnerable road users
- 71%
- of people killed or seriously injured
Collisions by year and severity
In 2025, Wirral recorded 81 fatal or serious collisions, 12% below its average of 92 a year over 2021–2025.
| Year | Fatal | Serious | Slight | Total | Casualties | Fatal or serious |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | 86 | 324 | 415 | 529 |
91
|
| 2022 | 4 | 96 | 337 | 437 | 525 |
100
|
| 2023 | 4 | 98 | 299 | 401 | 505 |
102
|
| 2024 | 7 | 78 | 257 | 342 | 421 |
85
|
| 2025 | 3 | 78 | 262 | 343 | 419 |
81
|
| 2021–2025 | 23 | 436 | 1,479 | 1,938 | 2,399 | 459 |
Casualties by road user
2,399 people were hurt in these collisions: 23 killed, 464 seriously injured and 1,912 slightly injured. Pedestrians, pedal cyclists and motorcyclists made up 71% of those killed or seriously injured.
| Road user | Casualties | Share | Killed or seriously injured | Share of KSI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pedestrians | 427 | 17.8% | 125 | 25.7% |
| Pedal cyclists | 457 | 19.0% | 121 | 24.8% |
| Motorcyclists | 224 | 9.3% | 101 | 20.7% |
| All road users | 2,399 | 100% | 487 | 100% |
Roads with the most collisions
Classified roads in Wirral, by injury collisions recorded on them in 2021–2025.
- A551 108 collisions · 25 fatal or serious
- A553 96 collisions · 29 fatal or serious
- A554 60 collisions · 18 fatal or serious
- A41 56 collisions · 10 fatal or serious
- A552 55 collisions · 12 fatal or serious
- B5136 52 collisions · 16 fatal or serious
- M53 49 collisions · 16 fatal or serious
- B5151 41 collisions · 14 fatal or serious
- A5027 41 collisions · 8 fatal or serious
- A540 39 collisions · 10 fatal or serious
Areas within Wirral
Area pages with maps, hotspots and every collision, by collisions in 2021–2025.
How to get a formal collision extract from Wirral
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 Wirral'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.