Road crashes in Sefton

14,717 recorded collisions since 2000.

Sefton has recorded 14,717 road collisions since 2000, 149 of them fatal and 1,958 causing serious injury. That makes it the 78th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 14% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 10.1 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 74% since 2000, from 1,148 to 297 in 2024. The A565 is the most affected road locally, with 2,110 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.