ACCIDENT: An overturned car after a collision on New Lane in Breightmet in September 2019 THE spots where the most crashes happened in Bolton last year have been revealed – as officers pledge to crackdown on road safety. The positions where accidents have happened across the borough in previous years have been pinpointed, with the latest figures showing the collisions in 2019. There were 505 people hurt in road traffic collisions in Bolton last year, which online tool CollisionMap calculates is below the average number of incidents based on population size in the UK. Alarmingly, the amount of children seriously injured in collisions in 2019 (12) was much higher than the average, again based on population size.