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Chester City & the Garden Quarter, Cheshire West and Chester, CH1 3JH area: accident hotspot

Collisions, 2001 to 2025
1,120
281st busiest of 12,033 hotspots
Casualties
1,380
1.23 per collision
Fatal collisions
5
5 people killed
Collisions in 2025
17
Up 42% on 2024

Crash severity at the CH1 3JH hotspot

134 of the 1,120 collisions here (12%) killed or seriously injured someone.

Collisions by severity, 2001 to 2025

  • Fatal50.4%
  • Serious12912%
  • Slight98688%

People hurt, 2001 to 2025

Killed
5
Seriously injured
133
Slightly injured
1,242
All casualties
1,380

Accidents by year at the CH1 3JH hotspot

Collisions here peaked at 83 in 2001, against an average of 45 a year from 2001 to 2025.

Collisions and casualties at the CH1 3JH hotspot, 2001 to 2025

  • Collisions
  • Collisions in 2025: 17
  • Casualties

Source: Department for Transport, STATS19 road safety data

View as a table
YearCollisionsCasualties
20251718
20241214
20232224
20222529
20213238
20201819
20192224
20183437
20172733
20164650
20154750
20143639
20134248
20124052
20115269
20105976
20096298
20084456
20075770
20065567
20056880
20046886
200381111
20027183
200183109

Map of crashes at the CH1 3JH hotspot

The 48 most recent collisions at this hotspot, coloured by severity, around its centre near CH1 3JH.

Map of the 48 most recent collisions at the Chester City & the Garden Quarter, Cheshire West and Chester, CH1 3JH area accident hotspot

Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.

  • 48 crashes
  • Serious
  • Slight

Centre of the hotspot

Hotspot area, 700 m radius

Details of the CH1 3JH hotspot

This hotspot counts every collision police recorded from 2001 to 2025 within 700 metres of its centre, except those already counted in a busier hotspot.

Ward
Chester City & the Garden Quarter
Nearest postcode to the centre
CH1 3JH
Postcode district
CH1
Centre (latitude, longitude)
53.19227, -2.89001
Radius
700 metres
Years covered
2001 to 2025
Years with a collision
25 of 25
Latest collision
19 December 2025
Rank by collisions
281st of 12,033 hotspots

Roads at the CH1 3JH hotspot

The busiest road at this hotspot is the A5268, with 470 of 1,120, followed by the A56 with 50.

Collisions at the CH1 3JH hotspot on each road, 2001 to 2025
RankRoadCollisionsCasualtiesFatalSerious
1stA5268470590263
2ndA56506704
3rdA548425314
4thA51414703
5thA5116313602
6thA540192411
7thA4835700
8thA54802301
9thA411100
10thA5261101

Towns near the CH1 3JH hotspot

1,118 of the 1,120 collisions at this hotspot were inside the built-up area of Chester.

All 1,120 crashes at the CH1 3JH hotspot

Newest first, from 6 January 2001 to 19 December 2025, 48 to a page.

Severity
Year