Road crashes in Manchester

36,204 recorded collisions since 2000.

Manchester has recorded 36,204 road collisions since 2000, 351 of them fatal and 4,348 causing serious injury. That makes it the 6th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 13% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 9.7 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 73% since 2000, from 2,701 to 720 in 2024. The A34 is the most affected road locally, with 2,326 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.