Road crashes in Rossendale

4,307 recorded collisions since 2000.

Rossendale has recorded 4,307 road collisions since 2000, 58 of them fatal and 795 causing serious injury. That makes it the 319th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 20% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 13.5 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 46% since 2000, from 197 to 107 in 2024. The A681 is the most affected road locally, with 636 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.