Road crashes in Cheshire

25,218 recorded collisions since 2000.

Cheshire has recorded 25,218 road collisions since 2000, 441 of them fatal and 3,712 causing serious injury. That makes it the 24th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 16% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 17.5 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 29% since 2000, from 3,180 to 2,262 in 2008. The M6 is the most affected road locally, with 1,590 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.