Road crashes in Rochdale

11,535 recorded collisions since 2000.

Rochdale has recorded 11,535 road collisions since 2000, 126 of them fatal and 1,348 causing serious injury. That makes it the 110th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 13% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 10.9 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 81% since 2000, from 980 to 189 in 2024. The A58 is the most affected road locally, with 1,603 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.