Road crashes in Chorley

7,024 recorded collisions since 2000.

Chorley has recorded 7,024 road collisions since 2000, 104 of them fatal and 1,470 causing serious injury. That makes it the 227th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 22% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 14.8 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 25% since 2000, from 293 to 220 in 2024. The A6 is the most affected road locally, with 909 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.