Road crashes in Tameside

10,114 recorded collisions since 2000.

Tameside has recorded 10,114 road collisions since 2000, 124 of them fatal and 1,368 causing serious injury. That makes it the 135th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 15% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 12.3 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 73% since 2000, from 847 to 226 in 2024. The A635 is the most affected road locally, with 946 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.