Accident hotspots in Rochdale: where crashes cluster
Police recorded 204 road collisions in Rochdale in 2025. We mapped every one to find the junctions and roads where they concentrate.
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Road Risk Score
Rochdale ranks 75 of 125 towns we score — band C, around average
54.1 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents, 42.6% of collisions involving someone outside a car, and a five-year trend of -7.7%. How the score works.
Vulnerable road users in Rochdale (2025)
59 of Rochdale's 204 collisions (29%) involved pedestrians; 16 of Rochdale's 204 collisions (8%) involved cyclists; 12 of Rochdale's 204 collisions (6%) involved motorcyclists. Together those collisions left 31 people killed or seriously injured.
| Road user | Collisions | Share of all collisions | Killed or seriously injured | Serious-outcome rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pedestrians | 59 | 29% | 19 | 32% |
| Cyclists | 16 | 8% | 4 | 25% |
| Motorcyclists | 12 | 6% | 8 | 67% |
36 of Rochdale’s collisions in 2025 involved a child casualty.
Rochdale’s busiest collision clusters (2025)
Each circle is a ~100m cluster of police-reported collisions. Larger circles = more collisions; red = at least one death. Click a circle for details.
The short answer
Rochdale recorded 204 police-reported collisions in 2025 — rising (+24.4% on 2024), or about 184 per 100,000 residents. No single junction dominates — risk is spread across the area below.
204
Collisions in Rochdale (2025)
259
People injured or killed
+24.4%
Change vs 2024
~172
Modelled collisions in 2026 on current trend
Rochdale’s worst accident spots
| # | Location | Road | Collisions | Casualties | Serious | Fatal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hall Street, Whitworth | A671 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 2 | Kilworth Street, Sudden | A58 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 3 | Whitworth Road, Wardleworth | Local road | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | Bury Street, Bottom o' th' Brow | A58 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Roch Valley Way, Marland | B6452 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
What to do with this: if your regular routes cross the junctions above, they deserve extra care at peak times — these aren’t random locations, they’re where collisions repeat. For context, Rochdale’s rate of 184 per 100,000 residents compares with an average of 220 across the 125 areas we track. A junction with a documented five-year history is also the strongest evidence a campaign can put in front of a councillor.
Vulnerable road users in Rochdale in 2025: 59 collisions involved a pedestrian, 16 a cyclist and 12 a motorcyclist — overall, 183.8 collisions per 100,000 residents.
Area definition: figures cover 6km radius of the town centre. Per-100k rates use the mid-2023 ONS population estimate for the named town or district; where the area is radius-defined, treat the rate as indicative.
These figures come from the Department for Transport’s STATS19 dataset — every collision reported to the police in 2025 — clustered to roughly 100 metres and labelled via OpenStreetMap. Only police-reported incidents are included, so minor damage-only bumps are undercounted. See the full UK hotspots analysis for the national picture and methodology.
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Rochdale over 5 years
Collisions per year in Rochdale
2025: 204 (up 24.4% on the year before) · peak 221 in 2021 · -7.7% across the period
Axis clipped to the data range to show year-on-year movement.
2021 was Rochdale’s worst year of the period with 221 collisions, against 164 in 2024. Of 2025’s 259 casualties, 60 were killed or seriously injured (2 deaths, 58 serious).
Build the Rochdale story from this page
Every line below is computed from the official DfT STATS19 dataset and updates when new data is released — copy, check, publish. Free to use with a link to this page as the source.
- “Police recorded 204 road collisions in Rochdale in 2025, injuring or killing 259 people (DfT STATS19).
- “2021 was Rochdale's worst year of the last 5 (221 collisions, against 164 in 2024).
- “Rochdale's collision rate is 184 per 100,000 residents, against an average of 220 across the 125 areas we track.
- “59 collisions involved pedestrians, 16 collisions involved cyclists, 12 collisions involved motorcyclists — with 31 of those people killed or seriously injured.
- “36 collisions in Rochdale involved a child casualty in 2025.
Attribution: “Analysis by Swift Assist (swiftassistuk.co.uk) of DfT STATS19 data” with a link to this page. Methodology: how we process the data.
How Rochdale compares nationally
Rochdale is the highway authority for these roads, which means the same body counted in the national comparison below is the one that maintains them.
Per mile driven
169 of 192
Per resident
139 of 188
Risk band
Lowest risk
Five-year trend
down 4.8%
Those two numbers disagree, and that is the story. Rochdale sits 139 of 188 measured per resident but 169 of 192 measured per mile actually driven — a gap of 30 places. Measured against the traffic the network actually carries rather than the number of people living beside it, the record is better than the headline per-head figure implies.
The full record for Rochdale — severity-adjusted casualties, the breakdown of who is being hurt, the darkness and ice profile, and a comparison against its ONS statistical neighbours rather than the national average — is on its own page.
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