Accident hotspots in Salford: where crashes cluster
Police recorded 683 road collisions in Salford in 2025. We mapped every one to find the junctions and roads where they concentrate.
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Road Risk Score
Salford ranks 2 of 125 towns we score — band D, above average
193.1 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents, 62.4% of collisions involving someone outside a car, and a five-year trend of -4.5%. How the score works.
Vulnerable road users in Salford (2025)
202 of Salford's 683 collisions (30%) involved pedestrians; 188 of Salford's 683 collisions (28%) involved cyclists; 36 of Salford's 683 collisions (5%) involved motorcyclists. Together those collisions left 177 people killed or seriously injured.
| Road user | Collisions | Share of all collisions | Killed or seriously injured | Serious-outcome rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pedestrians | 202 | 30% | 80 | 40% |
| Cyclists | 188 | 28% | 72 | 38% |
| Motorcyclists | 36 | 5% | 25 | 69% |
66 of Salford’s collisions in 2025 involved a child casualty.
Salford’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
Salford recorded 683 police-reported collisions in 2025 — broadly flat year-on-year, or about 525 per 100,000 residents. Its most stubborn risk is Brunswick Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock, a hotspot in 5 of the last 5 years.
683
Collisions in Salford (2025)
823
People injured or killed
-2.7%
Change vs 2024
~671
Modelled collisions in 2026 on current trend
Salford’s junctions that stay dangerous
These locations recorded multiple collisions in at least four of the last five years (2021–2025) — a persistent pattern, not a one-off bad year.
Brunswick Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock
A6
17 collisions across 5 hotspot years · 20 casualties · 5 serious or fatal
Whitworth Street, City Centre
A34
12 collisions across 4 hotspot years · 27 casualties · 6 serious or fatal
Moss Lane East, Chorlton-on-Medlock
B5117
11 collisions across 4 hotspot years · 11 casualties · 1 serious or fatal
Salford’s worst accident spots
| # | Location | Road | Collisions | Casualties | Serious | Fatal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brunswick Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock | A6 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| 2 | Moss Lane East, Chorlton-on-Medlock | B5117 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| 3 | Chester Road, Gorse Hill | A56 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| 4 | M602, Ordsall | A57 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | Middleton Road, Crumpsall | A665 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 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, Salford’s rate of 525 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 Salford in 2025: 202 collisions involved a pedestrian, 188 a cyclist and 36 a motorcyclist — overall, 525.4 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.
Need this cut a different way? A junction’s full history, cyclist or pedestrian casualties on their own, or a before-and-after on a scheme: we produce those, free for community groups, campaigners and journalists.
Salford over 5 years
Collisions per year in Salford
2025: 683 (down 2.7% on the year before) · peak 715 in 2021 · -4.5% across the period
Axis clipped to the data range to show year-on-year movement.
2021 was Salford’s worst year of the period with 715 collisions, against 638 in 2023. Of 2025’s 823 casualties, 251 were killed or seriously injured (9 deaths, 242 serious).
Build the Salford 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 683 road collisions in Salford in 2025, injuring or killing 823 people (DfT STATS19).
- “2021 was Salford's worst year of the last 5 (715 collisions, against 638 in 2023).
- “Salford's collision rate is 525 per 100,000 residents, against an average of 220 across the 125 areas we track.
- “202 collisions involved pedestrians, 188 collisions involved cyclists, 36 collisions involved motorcyclists — with 177 of those people killed or seriously injured.
- “66 collisions in Salford 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 Salford compares nationally
Salford 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
130 of 192
Per resident
82 of 188
Risk band
Below average
Five-year trend
down 11.0%
Those two numbers disagree, and that is the story. Salford sits 82 of 188 measured per resident but 130 of 192 measured per mile actually driven — a gap of 48 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 Salford — 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.
Salford’s full road risk record →What actually changes the odds in Salford
Data is only useful if it changes what you do. These three are picked from Salford’s own figures above, each with the number that prompted it. Every guide explains how the thing works before it suggests buying anything, and most cost less than a third of a typical insurance excess.
Helmet camera
£50–£200
28% of collisions in Salford involve someone on a bike. In a disputed pull-out, footage from the rider's viewpoint is what settles liability.
How it works →
Dashcam (parking mode)
£50–£150
30% of collisions here involve a pedestrian, and those are the cases most often argued over. Footage removes the argument.
How it works →
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