County council · England
Lancashire road collision data
Between 2021 and 2025, the police recorded 10,685 injury collisions in Lancashire's highway authority area, 3,561 of them fatal or serious. These are the published STATS19 figures, which also include motorways and trunk roads in the area.
- Injury collisions
- 10,685
- 2021–2025
- Casualties
- 14,728
- People injured or killed
- Fatal collisions
- 157
- 3,404 serious, 7,124 slight
- Vulnerable road users
- 46%
- of people killed or seriously injured
Collisions by year and severity
In 2025, Lancashire recorded 720 fatal or serious collisions, 1% above its average of 712 a year over 2021–2025.
| Year | Fatal | Serious | Slight | Total | Casualties | Fatal or serious |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 31 | 652 | 1,385 | 2,068 | 2,804 |
683
|
| 2022 | 32 | 744 | 1,383 | 2,159 | 2,936 |
776
|
| 2023 | 30 | 682 | 1,474 | 2,186 | 2,996 |
712
|
| 2024 | 35 | 635 | 1,456 | 2,126 | 2,996 |
670
|
| 2025 | 29 | 691 | 1,426 | 2,146 | 2,996 |
720
|
| 2021–2025 | 157 | 3,404 | 7,124 | 10,685 | 14,728 | 3,561 |
Casualties by road user
14,728 people were hurt in these collisions: 163 killed, 3,823 seriously injured and 10,742 slightly injured. Pedestrians, pedal cyclists and motorcyclists made up 46% of those killed or seriously injured.
| Road user | Casualties | Share | Killed or seriously injured | Share of KSI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pedestrians | 2,064 | 14.0% | 803 | 20.1% |
| Pedal cyclists | 1,201 | 8.2% | 457 | 11.5% |
| Motorcyclists | 1,120 | 7.6% | 581 | 14.6% |
| All road users | 14,728 | 100% | 3,986 | 100% |
Roads with the most collisions
Classified roads in Lancashire, by injury collisions recorded on them in 2021–2025.
- A6 581 collisions · 178 fatal or serious
- M6 408 collisions · 117 fatal or serious
- A59 329 collisions · 108 fatal or serious
- M65 264 collisions · 56 fatal or serious
- A682 234 collisions · 67 fatal or serious
- A671 198 collisions · 71 fatal or serious
- A585 174 collisions · 46 fatal or serious
- A56 172 collisions · 42 fatal or serious
- A583 129 collisions · 42 fatal or serious
- B6243 121 collisions · 45 fatal or serious
Areas within Lancashire
Area pages with maps, hotspots and every collision, by collisions in 2021–2025.
- Preston North 1,704 collisions
- Lancaster 1,204 collisions
- Chorley 991 collisions
- Preston South 979 collisions
- Thornton Cleveleys 929 collisions
- Ormskirk 855 collisions
- Burnley 842 collisions
- Kirkham 774 collisions
- Accrington 746 collisions
- Colne 674 collisions
- Rawtenstall 500 collisions
- Clitheroe 487 collisions
How to get a formal collision extract from Lancashire
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 Lancashire'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.