Accident hotspots in Wolverhampton: where crashes cluster
Police recorded 460 road collisions in Wolverhampton in 2025. We mapped every one to find the junctions and roads where they concentrate.
33.9
Road Risk Score
Wolverhampton ranks 104 of 125 towns we score — band B, below average
34.2 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents, 166.2 vehicle crimes per 100,000, 45% of collisions involving someone outside a car, and a five-year trend of -14.2%. How the score works.
Wolverhampton ward by ward
Every fatal and serious collision in Wolverhampton matched to its council ward: 410 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 Wolverhampton (2025)
138 of Wolverhampton's 460 collisions (30%) involved pedestrians; 33 of Wolverhampton's 460 collisions (7%) involved cyclists; 36 of Wolverhampton's 460 collisions (8%) involved motorcyclists. Together those collisions left 63 people killed or seriously injured.
| Road user | Collisions | Share of all collisions | Killed or seriously injured | Serious-outcome rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pedestrians | 138 | 30% | 40 | 29% |
| Cyclists | 33 | 7% | 5 | 15% |
| Motorcyclists | 36 | 8% | 18 | 50% |
79 of Wolverhampton’s collisions in 2025 involved a child casualty.
Wolverhampton’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
Wolverhampton recorded 460 police-reported collisions in 2025 — rising (+5.3% on 2024), or about 175 per 100,000 residents. Its most stubborn risk is Lunt Junction, The Lunt, a hotspot in 5 of the last 5 years.
460
Collisions in Wolverhampton (2025)
577
People injured or killed
+5.3%
Change vs 2024
~425
Modelled collisions in 2026 on current trend
Wolverhampton’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.
Lunt Junction, The Lunt
A463
13 collisions across 5 hotspot years · 19 casualties · 2 serious or fatal
Wolverhampton Road West, Shepwell Green
A462
11 collisions across 5 hotspot years · 15 casualties · 0 serious or fatal
Birmingham New Road
A4123
17 collisions across 4 hotspot years · 32 casualties · 4 serious or fatal
Wolverhampton’s worst accident spots
| # | Location | Road | Collisions | Casualties | Serious | Fatal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ring Road St. Andrews, Fallings Park | A4150 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | Stafford Street, Low Hill | A449 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 3 | Marsh Lane, Oxley | A449 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | Bert Turner Boulevard, Loxdale | A463 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | Grove Street, Heath Town | A4124 | 3 | 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, Wolverhampton’s rate of 175 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 Wolverhampton in 2025: 138 collisions involved a pedestrian, 33 a cyclist and 36 a motorcyclist — overall, 174.9 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.
Wolverhampton over 5 years
Collisions per year in Wolverhampton
2025: 460 (up 5.3% on the year before) · peak 536 in 2021 · -14.2% across the period
Axis clipped to the data range to show year-on-year movement.
2021 was Wolverhampton’s worst year of the period with 536 collisions, against 437 in 2024. Of 2025’s 577 casualties, 90 were killed or seriously injured (6 deaths, 84 serious).
Build the Wolverhampton 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 460 road collisions in Wolverhampton in 2025, injuring or killing 577 people (DfT STATS19).
- “2021 was Wolverhampton's worst year of the last 5 (536 collisions, against 437 in 2024).
- “Wolverhampton's collision rate is 175 per 100,000 residents, against an average of 220 across the 125 areas we track.
- “138 collisions involved pedestrians, 33 collisions involved cyclists, 36 collisions involved motorcyclists — with 63 of those people killed or seriously injured.
- “79 collisions in Wolverhampton 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 Wolverhampton compares nationally
Wolverhampton 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
78 of 192
Per resident
154 of 188
Risk band
Above average
Five-year trend
down 20.3%
Those two numbers disagree, and that is the story. Wolverhampton sits 154 of 188 measured per resident but 78 of 192 measured per mile actually driven — a gap of 76 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 Wolverhampton — 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.
Wolverhampton’s full road risk record →What actually changes the odds in Wolverhampton
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UK accident hotspots (national)
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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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