West Midlands Police (WMP) has spent more than £15 million repairing its vehicles over the past seven years, following thousands of collisions. From 2019 to 2025, a total of 3,970 police vehicles were involved in road traffic collisions (RTCs), with 342 written off entirely.
A freedom of information (FOI) request revealed that in 2025 alone, the force spent £2,235,432 on repairs to cars and vans. This figure may rise as some repairs are yet to be completed. Despite this, the number of crashes involving police vehicles in 2025 (417) was lower than in any of the previous six years.
Annual Breakdown of Collisions
The number of police vehicles involved in collisions per year since 2019 is as follows:
- 2019: 735
- 2020: 614
- 2021: 444
- 2022: 633
- 2023: 680
- 2024: 447
- 2025: 417
Total: 3,970
Repair Costs Per Year
The total damage costs for each calendar year were:
- 2019: £1,964,577
- 2020: £1,802,490
- 2021: £1,983,271
- 2022: £2,157,752
- 2023: £2,370,179
- 2024: £2,583,089
- 2025: £2,235,432 (may rise)
Total: £15,096,790
Vehicles Written Off
The number of police vehicles written off due to RTCs each year:
- 2019: 56
- 2020: 47
- 2021: 27
- 2022: 40
- 2023: 46
- 2024: 52
- 2025: 74
Total: 342
A force spokesperson said: "Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that this data has been extracted from a number of data sources used by forces for police purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request may be subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when interpreting the data. The figures provided, therefore, are our best interpretation of data which has relevance to your request, but you should be aware that the collation of figures for ad hoc requests may have limitations and this should be taken into account when those data are used."
