Trunk A-road
A1041 traffic and collisions
The A1041 is a trunk A-road of 6.2 miles, from East Riding of Yorkshire to North Yorkshire. This page covers its traffic at 5 DfT count points since 2000 and the collisions police recorded on it.
- Traffic in 2025 25m vehicle miles
- Average daily traffic 11,145 vehicles a day, both directions
- Busiest section 18,953 Abbot's Rd, Selby to A63
- HGV share 2.5% of vehicle miles
- Traffic since 2019 −1.5% same count points
- Collisions, 2021 to 2025 46 37.8 per 100m vehicle miles
How busy is the A1041?
On an average day in 2025, 11,145 vehicles passed each point on the A1041, counting both directions. The busiest section is Abbot's Rd, Selby to A63 (North Yorkshire), with 18,953 a day; the quietest listed is A614 to A645, with 7,872.
Busiest sections, 2025
Abbot's Rd, Selby to A63 carries 1.7 times the road’s average flow.
| Section | Vehicles a day |
|---|---|
| Abbot's Rd, Selby to A63 North Yorkshire · 0.6 mi · HGVs 1.7% | 18,953 |
| A63 to Abbot's Rd North Yorkshire · 1.4 mi · HGVs 1.3% | 17,548 |
| At A645 East Riding of Yorkshire, North Yorkshire · 2.3 mi · HGVs 1.7% | 7,915 |
| A614 to A645 East Riding of Yorkshire · 1.9 mi · HGVs 5.9% | 7,872 |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
Route
East Riding of Yorkshire to North Yorkshire · 6.2 miles
A1041 traffic and collisions by section
4 sections between junctions, in route order. Each is the average of its DfT count points, weighted by length.
Sections Tap a column heading to sort
| # | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A614 to A645East Riding of Yorkshire | 7,872 | 5 |
| 2 | At A645East Riding of Yorkshire, North Yorkshire | 7,915 | 10 |
| 3 | Abbot's Rd, Selby to A63North Yorkshire | 18,953 | 20 |
| 4 | A63 to Abbot's RdNorth Yorkshire | 17,548 | 11 |
Vehicles a day is the average daily flow in 2025. “Since 2019” compares the same count points. Collisions are those with the A1041 as the first road, placed on the nearest section by their recorded position; rates (per 100 million vehicle miles) are shown for sections of half a mile or more with 10 or more.
A1041 traffic by vehicle type
Cars and taxis make up 81.1% of the vehicle miles on the A1041. HGVs account for 2.5%, rising to 5.9% on A614 to A645.
Vehicle mix, 2025
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
HGV share of traffic
| Year | HGV share |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 7.3% |
| 2001 | 6.3% |
| 2002 | 6.6% |
| 2003 | 6.4% |
| 2004 | 6.5% |
| 2005 | 6.7% |
| 2006 | 6.2% |
| 2007 | 6.4% |
| 2008 | 6.2% |
| 2009 | 5.7% |
| 2010 | 5.2% |
| 2011 | 4.1% |
| 2012 | 4.1% |
| 2013 | 4.0% |
| 2014 | 3.9% |
| 2015 | 3.8% |
| 2016 | 3.8% |
| 2017 | 3.8% |
| 2018 | 3.9% |
| 2019 | 3.6% |
| 2020 | 4.2% |
| 2021 | 2.8% |
| 2022 | 2.7% |
| 2023 | 2.5% |
| 2024 | 2.5% |
| 2025 | 2.5% |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
A1041 traffic trend
Traffic on the A1041 came to 25.2 million vehicle miles in 2025. At the count points present in both years, it is down 1.5% on 2019, before the pandemic, and down 0.8% on 2015.
Vehicle miles a year
Like for like, traffic is up 28.4% on 2000.
| Year | Vehicle miles |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 24m |
| 2001 | 27m |
| 2002 | 30m |
| 2003 | 30m |
| 2004 | 31m |
| 2005 | 29m |
| 2006 | 30m |
| 2007 | 30m |
| 2008 | 30m |
| 2009 | 31m |
| 2010 | 32m |
| 2011 | 33m |
| 2012 | 33m |
| 2013 | 33m |
| 2014 | 34m |
| 2015 | 36m |
| 2016 | 37m |
| 2017 | 37m |
| 2018 | 37m |
| 2019 | 37m |
| 2020 | 28m |
| 2021 | 23m |
| 2022 | 24m |
| 2023 | 25m |
| 2024 | 25m |
| 2025 | 25m |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
Average daily flow
| Year | Vehicles a day |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 6,991 |
| 2001 | 7,903 |
| 2002 | 8,784 |
| 2003 | 9,061 |
| 2004 | 9,173 |
| 2005 | 8,602 |
| 2006 | 8,891 |
| 2007 | 9,038 |
| 2008 | 8,982 |
| 2009 | 9,287 |
| 2010 | 9,542 |
| 2011 | 9,782 |
| 2012 | 9,785 |
| 2013 | 9,903 |
| 2014 | 10,013 |
| 2015 | 10,824 |
| 2016 | 11,064 |
| 2017 | 11,047 |
| 2018 | 10,977 |
| 2019 | 11,025 |
| 2020 | 8,466 |
| 2021 | 9,937 |
| 2022 | 10,686 |
| 2023 | 10,900 |
| 2024 | 11,045 |
| 2025 | 11,145 |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
The chart counts the whole road as it was each year, so new or renumbered stretches move it. The percentage changes compare only count points present in both years (77.4% of today’s road for 2019). In 2025, 0 of the 5 count points were counted; DfT estimated the rest from earlier counts and local trends.
A1041 collisions
Police recorded 46 collisions with the A1041 as the first road from 2021 to 2025, 12 of them fatal or serious. That is 37.8 per 100 million vehicle miles, higher than the 31.5 for all A-roads in Great Britain. On average there were 1.5 a year for each mile of road.
Reported collisions by year
Up 11.1% from 2021 to 2025.
| Year | Collisions |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 9 |
| 2022 | 5 |
| 2023 | 11 |
| 2024 | 11 |
| 2025 | 10 |
Source:DfT STATS19,UK Motoring analysis 2021 to 2025 Updated
Sections with the highest collision rates
Per 100 million vehicle miles, 2021 to 2025. Sections of half a mile or more with 10 or more collisions.
| Section | Per 100m vehicle miles |
|---|---|
| Abbot's Rd, Selby to A63 North Yorkshire · 20 collisions | 100.3 |
| At A645 East Riding of Yorkshire, North Yorkshire · 10 collisions | 31.3 |
| A63 to Abbot's Rd North Yorkshire · 11 collisions | 25.3 |
Source:DfT STATS19,UK Motoring analysis 2021 to 2025 Updated
A further 5 collisions were recorded at junctions where the A1041 was the second road; they are not in the figures above. Fatal or serious uses DfT’s adjusted serious figures. 100.0% of the collisions could be placed on a section. How we count collisions
Council areas on the A1041
In route order. Each is the highway authority DfT files the count points under.
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- North Yorkshire
Data sources and methodology
| Figures | Source | Period | Records | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Traffic counts and vehicle mix | Road traffic statistics (AADF by count point) Department for Transport Derived statistics UK Motoring | 2000 to 2025 | 5 count points in 2025 | 15 September 2026 |
| Reported collisions | Road safety open data (STATS19) Department for Transport Derived statistics UK Motoring | 2021 to 2025 | 46 reported collisions | 15 September 2026 |
- Annual average daily flow (AADF) is the average number of vehicles passing a point on a typical day of the year, both directions combined.
- Vehicle miles are AADF multiplied by link length and 365, summed over every count point link on the road.
- Sections join count point links between junctions, using the link lines in DfT’s major road database.
- STATS19 covers personal injury collisions reported to the police. Damage-only collisions are not included, and not every injury collision is reported.
- Serious and slight figures are DfT’s adjusted estimates, which allow for police forces moving to injury-based reporting.
- Counts of one or two collisions below Great Britain level are shown as “fewer than 3”.
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