Road crashes in Liverpool

35,118 recorded collisions since 2000.

Liverpool has recorded 35,118 road collisions since 2000, 298 of them fatal and 5,066 causing serious injury. That makes it the 8th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 15% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 8.5 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 70% since 2000, from 2,788 to 841 in 2024. The A580 is the most affected road locally, with 1,871 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.