Road crashes in Blackpool

11,030 recorded collisions since 2000.

Blackpool has recorded 11,030 road collisions since 2000, 68 of them fatal and 1,844 causing serious injury. That makes it the 119th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 17% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 6.2 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 47% since 2000, from 606 to 320 in 2024. The A584 is the most affected road locally, with 867 collisions.

Figures cover collisions reported to police (STATS19) from 2000 onward; severity definitions changed over time, so treat long-range trends with care. Source: DfT STATS19, Open Government Licence v3.0.