Accident hotspots in Leicester: where crashes cluster
Police recorded 463 road collisions in Leicester in 2025. We mapped every one to find the junctions and roads where they concentrate.
47.1
Road Risk Score
Leicester ranks 72 of 125 towns we score — band C, around average
33.5 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents, 196.2 vehicle crimes per 100,000, 55.1% of collisions involving someone outside a car, and a five-year trend of +9.7%. How the score works.
Leicester ward by ward
Every fatal and serious collision in Leicester matched to its council ward: 559 people killed or seriously injured across 21 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 Leicester (2025)
117 of Leicester's 463 collisions (25%) involved pedestrians; 100 of Leicester's 463 collisions (22%) involved cyclists; 38 of Leicester's 463 collisions (8%) involved motorcyclists. Together those collisions left 97 people killed or seriously injured.
| Road user | Collisions | Share of all collisions | Killed or seriously injured | Serious-outcome rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pedestrians | 117 | 25% | 47 | 40% |
| Cyclists | 100 | 22% | 34 | 34% |
| Motorcyclists | 38 | 8% | 16 | 42% |
57 of Leicester’s collisions in 2025 involved a child casualty.
Leicester’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
Leicester recorded 463 police-reported collisions in 2025 — rising (+3.3% on 2024), or about 124 per 100,000 residents. Its most stubborn risk is Stuart Street, Westcotes, a hotspot in 4 of the last 5 years.
463
Collisions in Leicester (2025)
531
People injured or killed
+3.3%
Change vs 2024
~483
Modelled collisions in 2026 on current trend
Leicester’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.
Stuart Street, Westcotes
A5460
14 collisions across 4 hotspot years · 22 casualties · 0 serious or fatal
London Road, Highfields
A6
12 collisions across 4 hotspot years · 12 casualties · 4 serious or fatal
Vaughan Way, Black Friars
A594
11 collisions across 4 hotspot years · 13 casualties · 2 serious or fatal
Leicester’s worst accident spots
| # | Location | Road | Collisions | Casualties | Serious | Fatal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | London Road, Highfields | A594 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0 |
| 2 | Evington Road, Stoneygate | Local road | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | Highcross Street, Black Friars | A594 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| 4 | Stuart Street, Westcotes | A5460 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Belgrave Road, Latimer | A607 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 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, Leicester’s rate of 124 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 Leicester in 2025: 117 collisions involved a pedestrian, 100 a cyclist and 38 a motorcyclist — overall, 124.1 collisions per 100,000 residents.
Area definition: figures cover Leicester 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.
Leicester over 5 years
Collisions per year in Leicester
2025: 463 (up 3.3% on the year before) · peak 495 in 2023 · +9.7% across the period
Axis clipped to the data range to show year-on-year movement.
2023 was Leicester’s worst year of the period with 495 collisions, against 413 in 2022. Of 2025’s 531 casualties, 125 were killed or seriously injured (6 deaths, 119 serious).
Build the Leicester 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 463 road collisions in Leicester in 2025, injuring or killing 531 people (DfT STATS19).
- “2023 was Leicester's worst year of the last 5 (495 collisions, against 413 in 2022).
- “Leicester's collision rate is 124 per 100,000 residents, against an average of 220 across the 125 areas we track.
- “117 collisions involved pedestrians, 100 collisions involved cyclists, 38 collisions involved motorcyclists — with 97 of those people killed or seriously injured.
- “57 collisions in Leicester 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 Leicester compares nationally
Leicester 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
17 of 192
Per resident
116 of 188
Risk band
Highest risk
Five-year trend
up 9.7%
Those two numbers disagree, and that is the story. Leicester sits 116 of 188 measured per resident but 17 of 192 measured per mile actually driven — a gap of 99 places. Almost every published comparison quietly uses the per-head measure, which flatters places that carry a lot of through-traffic. On the measure that accounts for how much driving actually happens here, the record is worse than the usual figure suggests.
The full record for Leicester — 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.
Leicester’s full road risk record →What actually changes the odds in Leicester
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Leicester records 196 vehicle crimes per 100,000 residents, above the median of the towns we track. Keyless relay theft is the leading route into modern cars, and a signal-blocking pouch ends that method outright for under a tenner.
How it works →
Helmet camera
£50–£200
22% of collisions in Leicester involve someone on a bike. In a disputed pull-out, footage from the rider's viewpoint is what settles liability.
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Steering wheel lock
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Read more →Leicester collisions by ward
Ward-level analysis with every collision mapped, for councillors and campaigners.
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Where cyclists are hurt across Britain, from the same records.
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