Road crashes in Cheshire West and Chester

11,338 recorded collisions since 2000.

Cheshire West and Chester has recorded 11,338 road collisions since 2000, 164 of them fatal and 1,984 causing serious injury. That makes it the 115th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 19% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 14.5 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 48% since 2009, from 990 to 512 in 2024. The A41 is the most affected road locally, with 682 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.