Accident hotspots in Harrogate: where crashes cluster
Police recorded 123 road collisions in Harrogate in 2025. We mapped every one to find the junctions and roads where they concentrate.
48.6
Road Risk Score
Harrogate ranks 66 of 125 towns we score — band C, around average
41.3 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents, 122.7 vehicle crimes per 100,000, 53.7% of collisions involving someone outside a car, and a five-year trend of +44.7%. How the score works.
Vulnerable road users in Harrogate (2025)
39 of Harrogate's 123 collisions (32%) involved pedestrians; 14 of Harrogate's 123 collisions (11%) involved cyclists; 13 of Harrogate's 123 collisions (11%) involved motorcyclists. Together those collisions left 23 people killed or seriously injured.
| Road user | Collisions | Share of all collisions | Killed or seriously injured | Serious-outcome rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pedestrians | 39 | 32% | 14 | 36% |
| Cyclists | 14 | 11% | 3 | 21% |
| Motorcyclists | 13 | 11% | 6 | 46% |
6 of Harrogate’s collisions in 2025 involved a child casualty.
Harrogate’s busiest collision clusters (2025)
Each circle is a ~100m cluster of police-reported collisions. Larger circles = more collisions; red = at least one death. Click a circle for details.
The short answer
Harrogate recorded 123 police-reported collisions in 2025 — rising (+20.6% on 2024), or about 164 per 100,000 residents. No single junction dominates — risk is spread across the area below.
123
Collisions in Harrogate (2025)
155
People injured or killed
+20.6%
Change vs 2024
~130
Modelled collisions in 2026 on current trend
Harrogate’s worst accident spots
| # | Location | Road | Collisions | Casualties | Serious | Fatal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | High Street, Starbeck | A59 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | Leeds Road, Kirkby Overblow | A61 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 0 |
| 3 | Wetherby Road, Harrogate | A661 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | East Parade, High Harrogate | Local road | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | St Johns Grove, Bilton | A59 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
What to do with this: if your regular routes cross the junctions above, they deserve extra care at peak times — these aren’t random locations, they’re where collisions repeat. For context, Harrogate’s rate of 164 per 100,000 residents compares with an average of 220 across the 125 areas we track. A junction with a documented five-year history is also the strongest evidence a campaign can put in front of a councillor.
Vulnerable road users in Harrogate in 2025: 39 collisions involved a pedestrian, 14 a cyclist and 13 a motorcyclist — overall, 164 collisions per 100,000 residents.
Area definition: figures cover 6km radius of the town centre. Per-100k rates use the mid-2023 ONS population estimate for the named town or district; where the area is radius-defined, treat the rate as indicative.
These figures come from the Department for Transport’s STATS19 dataset — every collision reported to the police in 2025 — clustered to roughly 100 metres and labelled via OpenStreetMap. Only police-reported incidents are included, so minor damage-only bumps are undercounted. See the full UK hotspots analysis for the national picture and methodology.
Need this cut a different way? A junction’s full history, cyclist or pedestrian casualties on their own, or a before-and-after on a scheme: we produce those, free for community groups, campaigners and journalists.
Harrogate over 5 years
Collisions per year in Harrogate
2025: 123 (up 20.6% on the year before) · peak 123 in 2025 · +44.7% across the period
Axis clipped to the data range to show year-on-year movement.
2025 was Harrogate’s worst year of the period with 123 collisions, against 77 in 2022. Of 2025’s 155 casualties, 31 were killed or seriously injured (1 deaths, 30 serious).
Build the Harrogate story from this page
Every line below is computed from the official DfT STATS19 dataset and updates when new data is released — copy, check, publish. Free to use with a link to this page as the source.
- “Police recorded 123 road collisions in Harrogate in 2025, injuring or killing 155 people (DfT STATS19).
- “2025 was Harrogate's worst year of the last 5 (123 collisions, against 77 in 2022).
- “Harrogate's collision rate is 164 per 100,000 residents, against an average of 220 across the 125 areas we track.
- “39 collisions involved pedestrians, 14 collisions involved cyclists, 13 collisions involved motorcyclists — with 23 of those people killed or seriously injured.
- “6 collisions in Harrogate involved a child casualty in 2025.
Attribution: “Analysis by Swift Assist (swiftassistuk.co.uk) of DfT STATS19 data” with a link to this page. Methodology: how we process the data.
Harrogate's roads are North Yorkshire's responsibility
Collisions above are counted for Harrogate. The body that maintains those roads, sets the speed limits and decides which junctions get fixed is North Yorkshire — so that is the level at which the record can be compared with anywhere else in Britain.
Per mile driven
82 of 192
Risk band
Above average
The full record for North Yorkshire — severity-adjusted casualties, the breakdown of who is being hurt, the darkness and ice profile, and a comparison against its ONS statistical neighbours rather than the national average — is on its own page.
North Yorkshire’s full road risk record →What actually changes the odds in Harrogate
Data is only useful if it changes what you do. These three are picked from Harrogate’s own figures above, each with the number that prompted it. Every guide explains how the thing works before it suggests buying anything, and most cost less than a third of a typical insurance excess.
Alarmed disc lock
£20–£50
Motorcyclists are in 11% of Harrogate's collisions, and bikes are also lifted rather than ridden away. An alarmed disc lock covers the theft half for about £30.
How it works →
Dashcam (parking mode)
£50–£150
Collisions in Harrogate are up 45% across the period. A dashcam with parking mode is the cheapest way to keep a disputed claim from becoming a 50/50 split.
How it works →
Faraday key pouch / box
£9–£25
Even at Harrogate's 123 vehicle crimes per 100,000 residents, relay theft is the method that needs no tools and leaves no damage. The pouch is the cheapest thing that stops it.
How it works →
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