Accident hotspots in South Shields: where crashes cluster
Police recorded 238 road collisions in South Shields in 2025. We mapped every one to find the junctions and roads where they concentrate.
73.8
Road Risk Score
South Shields ranks 6 of 125 towns we score — band D, above average
78.7 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents, 189.3 vehicle crimes per 100,000, 56.7% of collisions involving someone outside a car, and a five-year trend of +10.7%. How the score works.
Vulnerable road users in South Shields (2025)
58 of South Shields's 238 collisions (24%) involved pedestrians; 51 of South Shields's 238 collisions (21%) involved cyclists; 26 of South Shields's 238 collisions (11%) involved motorcyclists. Together those collisions left 43 people killed or seriously injured.
| Road user | Collisions | Share of all collisions | Killed or seriously injured | Serious-outcome rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pedestrians | 58 | 24% | 15 | 26% |
| Cyclists | 51 | 21% | 15 | 29% |
| Motorcyclists | 26 | 11% | 13 | 50% |
41 of South Shields’s collisions in 2025 involved a child casualty.
South Shields’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
South Shields recorded 238 police-reported collisions in 2025 — falling (-13.1% on 2024), or about 317 per 100,000 residents. No single junction dominates — risk is spread across the area below.
238
Collisions in South Shields (2025)
268
People injured or killed
-13.1%
Change vs 2024
~265
Modelled collisions in 2026 on current trend
South Shields’s worst accident spots
| # | Location | Road | Collisions | Casualties | Serious | Fatal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beach Road, Cullercoats | A193 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | Harton Nook | A1300 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 3 | Prince Edward Road, Harton Nook | A1300 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 4 | Campbell Park Road, Fellgate | Local road | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | North Road, Preston | A192 | 2 | 2 | 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, South Shields’s rate of 317 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 South Shields in 2025: 58 collisions involved a pedestrian, 51 a cyclist and 26 a motorcyclist — overall, 317.3 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.
South Shields over 5 years
Collisions per year in South Shields
2025: 238 (down 13.1% on the year before) · peak 274 in 2024 · +10.7% across the period
Axis clipped to the data range to show year-on-year movement.
2024 was South Shields’s worst year of the period with 274 collisions, against 215 in 2021. Of 2025’s 268 casualties, 59 were killed or seriously injured (4 deaths, 55 serious).
Build the South Shields 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 238 road collisions in South Shields in 2025, injuring or killing 268 people (DfT STATS19).
- “2024 was South Shields's worst year of the last 5 (274 collisions, against 215 in 2021).
- “South Shields's collision rate is 317 per 100,000 residents, against an average of 220 across the 125 areas we track.
- “58 collisions involved pedestrians, 51 collisions involved cyclists, 26 collisions involved motorcyclists — with 43 of those people killed or seriously injured.
- “41 collisions in South Shields 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.
South Shields's roads are South Tyneside's responsibility
Collisions above are counted for South Shields. The body that maintains those roads, sets the speed limits and decides which junctions get fixed is South Tyneside — so that is the level at which the record can be compared with anywhere else in Britain.
Per mile driven
77 of 192
Per resident
174 of 188
Risk band
Above average
Five-year trend
up 10.3%
Those two numbers disagree, and that is the story. South Tyneside sits 174 of 188 measured per resident but 77 of 192 measured per mile actually driven — a gap of 97 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 South Tyneside — 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.
South Tyneside’s full road risk record →What actually changes the odds in South Shields
Data is only useful if it changes what you do. These three are picked from South Shields’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.
Faraday key pouch / box
£9–£25
South Shields records 189 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
21% of collisions in South Shields involve someone on a bike. In a disputed pull-out, footage from the rider's viewpoint is what settles liability.
How it works →
Steering wheel lock
£40–£70
Vehicle theft is target selection: thieves work a street and take the easiest car. A visible attack-rated bar moves your car down that list before anyone touches it.
How it works →
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