Official DfT records · 2021–2025

The junctions Britain never fixed

A collision at a junction can be bad luck. A collision at the same junction in five consecutive years is a design problem nobody has dealt with. We filtered every police-reported collision for exactly that pattern: 80 sites across 42 towns and cities qualify, between them accounting for 1,432 collisions and 1,750 casualties.

The short answer

The worst is Brixton Hill, Brixton on the A23 in London: 57 collisions and 63 people hurt over five years, with casualties recorded in every single one. 7 of these 80 sites have killed someone. Every one of them has been visible in the official data the whole time — the records are published annually, free, by the Department for Transport. What is missing is not the evidence but a mechanism that turns a five-year pattern into a scheme.

The 120 worst persistent sites. Circle size reflects collisions; red means at least one death.

The list

Every site with casualties in all five years

Ranked by people hurt. The road is the one recorded on the collision file; the place name comes from OpenStreetMap, so treat it as the nearest identifiable landmark rather than a precise address.

#	Location	Road	Area	Collisions	Casualties	Killed/serious
1	Brixton Hill, Brixton	A23	London	57	63	15
2	Green Lanes, Stoke Newington	A105	London	56	62	10
3	Broad Lane, West Green	A10	London	56	59	16
4	Bordesley Circus, Bordesley	A4540	Birmingham	38	58	3
5	The Plain, East Oxford	A420	Oxford	48	49	8
6	Belgrave Middleway, Digbeth	A38	Birmingham	27	40	2
7	Walford Road, Sparkhill	A41	Birmingham	27	36	3
8	Ifield Roundabout, Crawley	A23	Crawley	31	36	2
9	Woodford Lane, Atherstone	A5	Nuneaton	19	31	5
10	Lambert Street, Newland	A1079	Hull	26	29	8
11	Elstow Interchange	A6	Bedford	24	29	2
12	Transfer Bridges, Gorse Hill	A4311	Swindon	17	28	3
13	Crescent Road, High Town	A6	Luton	20	27	1
14	Otley Road, Barkerend	A650	Bradford	14	26	3
15	Ford Street, Little Chester	A601	Derby	18	26	4
16	A3, Hilsea	A3	Portsmouth	19	25	1
17	Centenary Way, Masbrough	A630	Rotherham	15	25	3
18	University Square, Netherthorpe	A61	Sheffield	20	24	6
19	Norcross Lane, Norcross	A585	Blackpool	18	24	5
20	Tile Hill Lane, Whoberley	A45	Coventry	14	23	4
21	Berners Street, The Dales	A1156	Ipswich	20	23	7
22	Valley Road, Old Basford	A6514	Nottingham	15	22	5
23	Dunstable Road, Bury Park	A505	Luton	19	22	1
24	Northgate Avenue, Worth	A2011	Crawley	18	22	4
25	Harehills Lane, Harehills	A58	Leeds	17	21	3
26	College Road, Handsworth	A4040	West Bromwich	14	21	2
27	London Colney Roundabout, The Camp	A414	St Albans	16	21	0
28	Brunswick Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock	A6	Manchester	17	20	5
29	Childwall Fiveways, Childwall	A5058	Liverpool	14	20	1
30	Nuthall Road, Bell's Lane Estate	A610	Nottingham	16	20	3
31	East Ella	Local road	Hull	19	20	1
32	Anlaby Road, Stepney	A1105	Hull	17	20	2
33	Brunswick Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock	A6	Salford	17	20	5
34	Scartho Road, Wellow	A46	Grimsby	19	20	4
35	Holes Bay North Roundabout, Stanley Green	A350	Poole	16	20	1
36	Stuart Street, Bury Park	A505	Luton	15	19	7
37	Stenson Road, Normanton	A5111	Derby	17	19	2
38	Lunt Junction, The Lunt	A463	Wolverhampton	13	19	2
39	Old Steine, Queen's Park	A23	Brighton	19	19	1
40	Lewes Road, Hollingdean	A270	Brighton	17	19	3
41	Lunt Junction, The Lunt	A463	Walsall	13	19	2
42	Moore Street, Broomhall	A61	Sheffield	17	18	2
43	Springroyd Terrace, Girlington	Local road	Bradford	11	18	1
44	Carlsberg Roundabout, St James' End	A428	Northampton	14	18	2
45	St James' Road, St James' End	A428	Northampton	12	18	0
46	Edward Street, Queen's Park	A23	Brighton	17	18	6
47	Canford Road, Wallisdown	A3049	Bournemouth	16	18	3
48	Trafford Way, Hyde Park	A18	Doncaster	15	18	2
49	Cheltenham Road, Cotham	A38	Bristol	15	17	1
50	Broadway East, Phippsville	A5101	Northampton	16	17	1
51	Barnwell Road, Barnwell	A1134	Cambridge	15	17	5
52	A1036, Layerthorpe	A1036	York	16	17	4
53	Grimshaw Park, Whinny Heights	A6077	Blackburn	12	17	4
54	A38	A38	Taunton	11	17	1
55	Breck Road, Anfield	A580	Liverpool	14	16	5
56	Church Road, Barton Hill	A420	Bristol	14	16	2
57	Four Lamps Roundabout, Petersfield	Local road	Cambridge	16	16	3
58	Northern Road, Cosham	A3	Portsmouth	16	16	0
59	Breck Road, Anfield	A580	Birkenhead	14	16	5
60	Westgate, West Marsh	A180	Grimsby	14	16	0
61	Wolverhampton Road West, Shepwell Green	A462	Walsall	12	16	1
62	Hamstead Road, Lozells	B4124	West Bromwich	11	16	4
63	Drury Lane, Grainger Town	A186	Newcastle upon Tyne	13	15	4
64	Sneinton Market Square, St Ann's	Local road	Nottingham	14	15	0
65	Wolverhampton Road West, Shepwell Green	A462	Wolverhampton	11	15	0
66	Fratton Road, Fratton	A2047	Portsmouth	13	15	3
67	Fordham Street, Kirkdale	A59	Birkenhead	12	15	3
68	Drury Lane, Grainger Town	A186	Gateshead	13	15	4
69	Fleet Street, Vauxhall	B5339	Liverpool	13	14	2
70	Oxford Road cyclepath, Dee Park	A329	Reading	14	14	1
71	Fleet Street, Vauxhall	B5339	Birkenhead	13	14	2
72	Telford Way, Smethwick	A4252	West Bromwich	12	14	1
73	St George's Roundabout, Stuppington	A28	Canterbury	13	14	1
74	St. Dunstan's Street, St. Mildred's	A290	Canterbury	12	14	4
75	Bramall Lane, Highfield	A61	Sheffield	10	13	3
76	A1134, Romsey	A1134	Cambridge	12	13	0
77	Normanton Road, New Normanton	Local road	Derby	13	13	0
78	Abingdon Street, North Shore	A586	Blackpool	11	12	3
79	Harrison Street, Blakenall Heath	A34	Walsall	12	12	3
80	Stokes Croft, Broadmead	A38	Bristol	11	11	2

Method, and its limits

How we decided a site counts

We cluster police-reported injury collisions to roughly 100 metres and keep only clusters recording collisions in every one of the 5 years in the dataset. That persistence filter is the whole point: it removes the sites that had one bad year and keeps the ones that keep happening.

Three honest caveats. Busy junctions carry more traffic, so some of this reflects exposure rather than design alone. Clustering to 100m can merge two nearby junctions into one site. And a site may have been treated recently, with the scheme too new to show in the data — if you know of work at any location listed, tell us and we will note it.

Free to reuse with attribution to this page. Full methodology. Journalists and councillors: we will cut the full collision history of any site here, free, usually same day — ask the data desk.

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