Accident hotspots in Shrewsbury: where crashes cluster
Police recorded 70 road collisions in Shrewsbury in 2025. We mapped every one to find the junctions and roads where they concentrate.
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Road Risk Score
Shrewsbury ranks 118 of 125 towns we score — band B, below average
21.1 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents, 44.7 vehicle crimes per 100,000, 64.3% of collisions involving someone outside a car, and a five-year trend of -29.3%. How the score works.
Vulnerable road users in Shrewsbury (2025)
16 of Shrewsbury's 70 collisions (23%) involved pedestrians; 22 of Shrewsbury's 70 collisions (31%) involved cyclists; 7 of Shrewsbury's 70 collisions (10%) involved motorcyclists. Together those collisions left 12 people killed or seriously injured.
| Road user | Collisions | Share of all collisions | Killed or seriously injured | Serious-outcome rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pedestrians | 16 | 23% | 6 | 38% |
| Cyclists | 22 | 31% | 3 | 14% |
| Motorcyclists | 7 | 10% | 3 | 43% |
9 of Shrewsbury’s collisions in 2025 involved a child casualty.
Shrewsbury’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
Shrewsbury recorded 70 police-reported collisions in 2025 — falling (-27.8% on 2024), or about 92 per 100,000 residents. No single junction dominates — risk is spread across the area below.
70
Collisions in Shrewsbury (2025)
91
People injured or killed
-27.8%
Change vs 2024
~71
Modelled collisions in 2026 on current trend
Shrewsbury’s worst accident spots
| # | Location | Road | Collisions | Casualties | Serious | Fatal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Roman Road, Porthill | B4380 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 2 | English Bridge, Coleham | A5191 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | Thieves' Lane, Springfield | A5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | A49 | A49 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Abbey Foregate, Cherry Orchard | A458 | 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, Shrewsbury’s rate of 92 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 Shrewsbury in 2025: 16 collisions involved a pedestrian, 22 a cyclist and 7 a motorcyclist — overall, 92.1 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.
Shrewsbury over 5 years
Collisions per year in Shrewsbury
2025: 70 (down 27.8% on the year before) · peak 100 in 2022 · -29.3% across the period
Axis clipped to the data range to show year-on-year movement.
2022 was Shrewsbury’s worst year of the period with 100 collisions, against 70 in 2025. Of 2025’s 91 casualties, 16 were killed or seriously injured (2 deaths, 14 serious).
Build the Shrewsbury 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 70 road collisions in Shrewsbury in 2025, injuring or killing 91 people (DfT STATS19).
- “2022 was Shrewsbury's worst year of the last 5 (100 collisions, against 70 in 2025).
- “Shrewsbury's collision rate is 92 per 100,000 residents, against an average of 220 across the 125 areas we track.
- “16 collisions involved pedestrians, 22 collisions involved cyclists, 7 collisions involved motorcyclists — with 12 of those people killed or seriously injured.
- “9 collisions in Shrewsbury 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.
Shrewsbury's roads are Shropshire's responsibility
Collisions above are counted for Shrewsbury. The body that maintains those roads, sets the speed limits and decides which junctions get fixed is Shropshire — so that is the level at which the record can be compared with anywhere else in Britain.
Per mile driven
131 of 192
Per resident
90 of 188
Risk band
Below average
Five-year trend
down 5.6%
Those two numbers disagree, and that is the story. Shropshire sits 90 of 188 measured per resident but 131 of 192 measured per mile actually driven — a gap of 41 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 Shropshire — 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.
Shropshire’s full road risk record →What actually changes the odds in Shrewsbury
Data is only useful if it changes what you do. These three are picked from Shrewsbury’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
31% of collisions in Shrewsbury involve someone on a bike. In a disputed pull-out, footage from the rider's viewpoint is what settles liability.
How it works →
Alarmed disc lock
£20–£50
Motorcyclists are in 10% of Shrewsbury'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
23% of collisions here involve a pedestrian, and those are the cases most often argued over. Footage removes the argument.
How it works →
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