Accident hotspots in Nottingham: where crashes cluster
Police recorded 780 road collisions in Nottingham in 2025. We mapped every one to find the junctions and roads where they concentrate.
71.5
Road Risk Score
Nottingham ranks 10 of 125 towns we score — band D, above average
52.4 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents, 311.9 vehicle crimes per 100,000, 55.6% of collisions involving someone outside a car, and a five-year trend of +19.6%. How the score works.
Nottingham ward by ward
Every fatal and serious collision in Nottingham matched to its council ward: 818 people killed or seriously injured across 20 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 Nottingham (2025)
213 of Nottingham's 780 collisions (27%) involved pedestrians; 142 of Nottingham's 780 collisions (18%) involved cyclists; 79 of Nottingham's 780 collisions (10%) involved motorcyclists. Together those collisions left 117 people killed or seriously injured.
| Road user | Collisions | Share of all collisions | Killed or seriously injured | Serious-outcome rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pedestrians | 213 | 27% | 52 | 24% |
| Cyclists | 142 | 18% | 37 | 26% |
| Motorcyclists | 79 | 10% | 28 | 35% |
77 of Nottingham’s collisions in 2025 involved a child casualty.
Nottingham’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
Nottingham recorded 780 police-reported collisions in 2025 — broadly flat year-on-year, or about 238 per 100,000 residents. Its most stubborn risk is Nuthall Road, Bell's Lane Estate, a hotspot in 5 of the last 5 years.
780
Collisions in Nottingham (2025)
900
People injured or killed
+2.5%
Change vs 2024
~821
Modelled collisions in 2026 on current trend
Nottingham’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.
Nuthall Road, Bell's Lane Estate
A610
16 collisions across 5 hotspot years · 20 casualties · 3 serious or fatal
Valley Road, Old Basford
A6514
15 collisions across 5 hotspot years · 22 casualties · 5 serious or fatal
Sneinton Market Square, St Ann's
Local road
14 collisions across 5 hotspot years · 15 casualties · 0 serious or fatal
Nottingham’s worst accident spots
| # | Location | Road | Collisions | Casualties | Serious | Fatal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hawksley Road, Hyson Green | A6130 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| 2 | North Church Street, St Ann's | A6008 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 0 |
| 3 | Mansfield Road, Carrington | A60 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 |
| 4 | Radford Boulevard, Radford | A6130 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 0 |
| 5 | Alfreton Road, Hyson Green | A6130 | 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, Nottingham’s rate of 238 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 Nottingham in 2025: 213 collisions involved a pedestrian, 142 a cyclist and 79 a motorcyclist — overall, 237.8 collisions per 100,000 residents.
Area definition: figures cover Nottingham 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.
Nottingham over 5 years
Collisions per year in Nottingham
2025: 780 (up 2.5% on the year before) · peak 780 in 2025 · +19.6% across the period
Axis clipped to the data range to show year-on-year movement.
2025 was Nottingham’s worst year of the period with 780 collisions, against 652 in 2021. Of 2025’s 900 casualties, 172 were killed or seriously injured (8 deaths, 164 serious).
Build the Nottingham 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 780 road collisions in Nottingham in 2025, injuring or killing 900 people (DfT STATS19).
- “2025 was Nottingham's worst year of the last 5 (780 collisions, against 652 in 2021).
- “Nottingham's collision rate is 238 per 100,000 residents, against an average of 220 across the 125 areas we track.
- “213 collisions involved pedestrians, 142 collisions involved cyclists, 79 collisions involved motorcyclists — with 117 of those people killed or seriously injured.
- “77 collisions in Nottingham 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 Nottingham compares nationally
Nottingham 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
3 of 192
Per resident
21 of 188
Risk band
Highest risk
Five-year trend
up 19.6%
The full record for Nottingham — 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.
Nottingham’s full road risk record →What actually changes the odds in Nottingham
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Helmet camera
£50–£200
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Where cyclists are hurt across Britain, from the same records.
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