Road crashes in Cheshire East

13,260 recorded collisions since 2000.

Cheshire East has recorded 13,260 road collisions since 2000, 224 of them fatal and 2,405 causing serious injury. That makes it the 87th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 20% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 16.9 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 56% since 2009, from 1,301 to 570 in 2024. The M6 is the most affected road locally, with 1,238 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.