Metropolitan borough · England
Bolton road collision data
Between 2021 and 2025, the police recorded 1,554 injury collisions in Bolton's highway authority area, 441 of them fatal or serious. These are the published STATS19 figures, which also include motorways and trunk roads in the area.
- Injury collisions
- 1,554
- 2021–2025
- Casualties
- 2,080
- People injured or killed
- Fatal collisions
- 33
- 408 serious, 1,113 slight
- Vulnerable road users
- 53%
- of people killed or seriously injured
Collisions by year and severity
In 2025, Bolton recorded 98 fatal or serious collisions, 11% above its average of 88 a year over 2021–2025.
| Year | Fatal | Serious | Slight | Total | Casualties | Fatal or serious |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 8 | 76 | 262 | 346 | 456 |
84
|
| 2022 | 9 | 70 | 244 | 323 | 436 |
79
|
| 2023 | 7 | 80 | 199 | 286 | 397 |
87
|
| 2024 | 7 | 86 | 217 | 310 | 410 |
93
|
| 2025 | 2 | 96 | 191 | 289 | 381 |
98
|
| 2021–2025 | 33 | 408 | 1,113 | 1,554 | 2,080 | 441 |
Casualties by road user
2,080 people were hurt in these collisions: 34 killed, 468 seriously injured and 1,578 slightly injured. Pedestrians, pedal cyclists and motorcyclists made up 53% of those killed or seriously injured.
| Road user | Casualties | Share | Killed or seriously injured | Share of KSI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pedestrians | 381 | 18.3% | 135 | 26.9% |
| Pedal cyclists | 185 | 8.9% | 68 | 13.5% |
| Motorcyclists | 124 | 6.0% | 65 | 12.9% |
| All road users | 2,080 | 100% | 502 | 100% |
Roads with the most collisions
Classified roads in Bolton, by injury collisions recorded on them in 2021–2025.
- A58 114 collisions · 24 fatal or serious
- A676 108 collisions · 26 fatal or serious
- A579 98 collisions · 22 fatal or serious
- A666 94 collisions · 28 fatal or serious
- M61 94 collisions · 19 fatal or serious
- A673 76 collisions · 29 fatal or serious
- A6 62 collisions · 16 fatal or serious
- B6226 45 collisions · 15 fatal or serious
- A6053 43 collisions · 15 fatal or serious
- A575 36 collisions · 14 fatal or serious
Areas within Bolton
Area pages with maps, hotspots and every collision, by collisions in 2021–2025.
How to get a formal collision extract from Bolton
The council's road safety or traffic team holds the full police records for its area. A formal extract can add what the published data leaves out: contributory factors, the officer's description of each collision and the current year's provisional records. Developers, consultants and solicitors usually pay for it.
Check Bolton's website for current fees, or contact its road safety team. Councils usually charge for extracts and send a quote before they start.
Source: Department for Transport road safety data (STATS19), 2021–2025, published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Collisions are counted against the local highway authority area recorded by the police. Casualty severities are as recorded at the time and are not adjusted.