Road crashes in Stockport

12,356 recorded collisions since 2000.

Stockport has recorded 12,356 road collisions since 2000, 125 of them fatal and 1,468 causing serious injury. That makes it the 96th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 13% 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 79% since 2000, from 1,059 to 221 in 2024. The A6 is the most affected road locally, with 1,503 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.