Road crashes in Burnley

6,480 recorded collisions since 2000.

Burnley has recorded 6,480 road collisions since 2000, 68 of them fatal and 1,174 causing serious injury. That makes it the 252nd-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 19% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 10.5 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 47% since 2000, from 332 to 176 in 2024. The A671 is the most affected road locally, with 913 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.