Accident hotspots in Leeds: where crashes cluster
Police recorded 1,395 road collisions in Leeds in 2025. We mapped every one to find the junctions and roads where they concentrate.
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Road Risk Score
Leeds ranks 83 of 125 towns we score — band C, around average
51.8 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents, 84.9 vehicle crimes per 100,000, 48.4% of collisions involving someone outside a car, and a five-year trend of +0.3%. How the score works.
Leeds ward by ward
Every fatal and serious collision in Leeds matched to its council ward: 2,371 people killed or seriously injured across 33 wards, with an interactive map, every collision plotted, the roads driving each ward’s total, and a CSV built for briefing notes. Written so a single page can be sent to a ward councillor.
Open the ward analysisVulnerable road users in Leeds (2025)
321 of Leeds's 1,395 collisions (23%) involved pedestrians; 260 of Leeds's 1,395 collisions (19%) involved cyclists; 94 of Leeds's 1,395 collisions (7%) involved motorcyclists. Together those collisions left 248 people killed or seriously injured.
| Road user | Collisions | Share of all collisions | Killed or seriously injured | Serious-outcome rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pedestrians | 321 | 23% | 108 | 34% |
| Cyclists | 260 | 19% | 87 | 33% |
| Motorcyclists | 94 | 7% | 53 | 56% |
196 of Leeds’s collisions in 2025 involved a child casualty.
Leeds’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
Leeds recorded 1,395 police-reported collisions in 2025 — falling (-4.6% on 2024), or about 170 per 100,000 residents. Its most stubborn risk is Harehills Lane, Harehills, a hotspot in 5 of the last 5 years.
1,395
Collisions in Leeds (2025)
1,730
People injured or killed
-4.6%
Change vs 2024
~1,425
Modelled collisions in 2026 on current trend
Leeds’s junctions that stay dangerous
These locations recorded multiple collisions in at least four of the last five years (2021–2025) — a persistent pattern, not a one-off bad year.
Harehills Lane, Harehills
A58
17 collisions across 5 hotspot years · 21 casualties · 3 serious or fatal
Headingley Lane, Hyde Park
A660
25 collisions across 4 hotspot years · 26 casualties · 5 serious or fatal
Kirkstall Lane, Kirkstall
A65
17 collisions across 4 hotspot years · 23 casualties · 5 serious or fatal
Leeds’s worst accident spots
| # | Location | Road | Collisions | Casualties | Serious | Fatal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harehills Lane, Harehills | B6159 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | Harehills Lane, Harehills | B6159 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | Vicar Lane, Lovell Park | Local road | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 |
| 4 | Albion Street, Lovell Park | Local road | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | St Peters Square, Lovell Park | A61 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 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, Leeds’s rate of 170 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 Leeds in 2025: 321 collisions involved a pedestrian, 260 a cyclist and 94 a motorcyclist — overall, 169.7 collisions per 100,000 residents.
Area definition: figures cover Leeds council district (ONS). 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.
Leeds over 5 years
Collisions per year in Leeds
2025: 1,395 (down 4.6% on the year before) · peak 1,585 in 2022 · +0.3% across the period
Axis clipped to the data range to show year-on-year movement.
2022 was Leeds’s worst year of the period with 1,585 collisions, against 1,391 in 2021. Of 2025’s 1,730 casualties, 426 were killed or seriously injured (16 deaths, 410 serious).
Build the Leeds 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 1,395 road collisions in Leeds in 2025, injuring or killing 1,730 people (DfT STATS19).
- “2022 was Leeds's worst year of the last 5 (1,585 collisions, against 1,391 in 2021).
- “Leeds's collision rate is 170 per 100,000 residents, against an average of 220 across the 125 areas we track.
- “321 collisions involved pedestrians, 260 collisions involved cyclists, 94 collisions involved motorcyclists — with 248 of those people killed or seriously injured.
- “196 collisions in Leeds 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.
How Leeds compares nationally
Leeds is the highway authority for these roads, which means the same body counted in the national comparison below is the one that maintains them.
Per mile driven
57 of 192
Per resident
26 of 188
Risk band
Above average
Five-year trend
broadly flat
Those two numbers disagree, and that is the story. Leeds sits 26 of 188 measured per resident but 57 of 192 measured per mile actually driven — a gap of 31 places. Measured against the traffic the network actually carries rather than the number of people living beside it, the record is better than the headline per-head figure implies.
The full record for Leeds — 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.
Leeds’s full road risk record →What actually changes the odds in Leeds
Data is only useful if it changes what you do. These three are picked from Leeds’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.
Helmet camera
£50–£200
19% of collisions in Leeds involve someone on a bike. In a disputed pull-out, footage from the rider's viewpoint is what settles liability.
How it works →
Dashcam (parking mode)
£50–£150
23% of collisions here involve a pedestrian, and those are the cases most often argued over. Footage removes the argument.
How it works →
Faraday key pouch / box
£9–£25
Even at Leeds's 85 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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UK accident hotspots (national)
Britain's 20 worst collision clusters, mapped from official data.
Read more →Leeds collisions by ward
Ward-level analysis with every collision mapped, for councillors and campaigners.
Read more →Cyclist collision map (national)
Where cyclists are hurt across Britain, from the same records.
Read more →Free data for campaigners
Junction histories, corridor studies and custom cuts, free for community groups.
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