Road crashes in Salford

13,470 recorded collisions since 2000.

Salford has recorded 13,470 road collisions since 2000, 157 of them fatal and 1,673 causing serious injury. That makes it the 86th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 14% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 11.7 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 75% since 2000, from 1,130 to 281 in 2024. The A6 is the most affected road locally, with 1,360 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.