Road crashes in Lancaster

9,816 recorded collisions since 2000.

Lancaster has recorded 9,816 road collisions since 2000, 160 of them fatal and 2,099 causing serious injury. That makes it the 140th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 23% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 16.3 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 59% since 2000, from 521 to 213 in 2024. The A6 is the most affected road locally, with 1,653 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.