Trunk A-road
A127 traffic and collisions
The A127 is a trunk A-road of 25.7 miles, from Havering to Southend-on-Sea. This page covers its traffic at 17 DfT count points since 2000 and the collisions police recorded on it.
- Traffic in 2025 526m vehicle miles
- Average daily traffic 56,050 vehicles a day, both directions
- Busiest section 72,917 A130 to A129
- HGV share 3.5% of vehicle miles
- Traffic since 2019 −8.7% same count points
- Collisions, 2021 to 2025 363 14.4 per 100m vehicle miles
How busy is the A127?
On an average day in 2025, 56,050 vehicles passed each point on the A127, counting both directions. The busiest section is A130 to A129 (Essex), with 72,917 a day; the quietest listed is A1159 to A13, with 16,481.
Busiest sections, 2025
A130 to A129 carries 1.3 times the road’s average flow.
| Section | Vehicles a day |
|---|---|
| A130 to A129 Essex · 3.9 mi · HGVs 2.7% | 72,917 |
| M25 to A128 Havering, Essex · 4.1 mi · HGVs 5.4% | 66,412 |
| A128 to High Road roundabout, Basildon Essex · 2.9 mi · HGVs 4.1% | 62,356 |
| A176 to A132 Essex · 2.5 mi · HGVs 2.9% | 62,190 |
| High Road roundabout to A176 Essex · 0.6 mi · HGVs 4.5% | 61,692 |
| A132 to A130 Essex · 3.4 mi · HGVs 3.4% | 56,111 |
| At A1158 Southend-on-Sea · 0.5 mi · HGVs 1.8% | 48,069 |
| Progress Rd to A1015 Southend-on-Sea · 1.1 mi · HGVs 3.5% | 44,430 |
| A1158 to A1159 Southend-on-Sea · 0.7 mi · HGVs 3.1% | 42,886 |
| A129 to Progress Rd Southend-on-Sea · 0.5 mi · HGVs 3.5% | 40,431 |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
Route
Havering to Southend-on-Sea · 25.7 miles
A127 traffic and collisions by section
15 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 | A12/A118 to Hall Lane (mid-junction)Havering | 40,338 | 59 |
| 2 | Hall Lane (mid-junction) to M25Havering | 37,715 | 30 |
| 3 | M25 to A128Havering, Essex | 66,412 | 56 |
| 4 | A128 to High Road roundabout, BasildonEssex | 62,356 | 19 |
| 5 | High Road roundabout to A176Essex | 61,692 | 4 |
| 6 | At A176 spurEssex | 61,963 | fewer than 3 |
| 7 | A176 to A132Essex | 62,190 | 14 |
| 8 | A132 to A130Essex | 56,111 | 9 |
| 9 | A130 to A129Essex | 72,917 | 53 |
| 10 | A129 to Progress RdSouthend-on-Sea | 40,431 | 8 |
| 11 | Progress Rd to A1015Southend-on-Sea | 44,430 | 22 |
| 12 | A1015 to A1158Southend-on-Sea | 48,373 | 9 |
| 13 | At A1158Southend-on-Sea | 48,069 | 20 |
| 14 | A1158 to A1159Southend-on-Sea | 42,886 | 23 |
| 15 | A1159 to A13Southend-on-Sea | 16,481 | 35 |
Vehicles a day is the average daily flow in 2025. “Since 2019” compares the same count points. Collisions are those with the A127 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.
A127 traffic by vehicle type
Cars and taxis make up 76.0% of the vehicle miles on the A127. HGVs account for 3.5%, rising to 5.4% on M25 to A128.
Vehicle mix, 2025
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
HGV share of traffic
| Year | HGV share |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 5.1% |
| 2001 | 5.1% |
| 2002 | 6.1% |
| 2003 | 6.0% |
| 2004 | 6.0% |
| 2005 | 5.8% |
| 2006 | 5.6% |
| 2007 | 5.1% |
| 2008 | 4.9% |
| 2009 | 5.3% |
| 2010 | 6.2% |
| 2011 | 4.5% |
| 2012 | 4.3% |
| 2013 | 4.1% |
| 2014 | 4.2% |
| 2015 | 4.4% |
| 2016 | 4.5% |
| 2017 | 4.3% |
| 2018 | 4.3% |
| 2019 | 3.9% |
| 2020 | 4.2% |
| 2021 | 4.1% |
| 2022 | 4.0% |
| 2023 | 3.6% |
| 2024 | 3.6% |
| 2025 | 3.5% |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
A127 traffic trend
Traffic on the A127 came to 526 million vehicle miles in 2025. At the count points present in both years, it is down 8.7% on 2019, before the pandemic, and about the same as in 2015.
Vehicle miles a year
Like for like, traffic is up 2.8% on 2000.
| Year | Vehicle miles |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 455m |
| 2001 | 467m |
| 2002 | 470m |
| 2003 | 474m |
| 2004 | 477m |
| 2005 | 482m |
| 2006 | 486m |
| 2007 | 483m |
| 2008 | 467m |
| 2009 | 494m |
| 2010 | 485m |
| 2011 | 493m |
| 2012 | 493m |
| 2013 | 504m |
| 2014 | 509m |
| 2015 | 489m |
| 2016 | 511m |
| 2017 | 502m |
| 2018 | 510m |
| 2019 | 535m |
| 2020 | 471m |
| 2021 | 474m |
| 2022 | 511m |
| 2023 | 506m |
| 2024 | 500m |
| 2025 | 526m |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
Average daily flow
| Year | Vehicles a day |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 52,331 |
| 2001 | 53,727 |
| 2002 | 54,132 |
| 2003 | 54,585 |
| 2004 | 54,848 |
| 2005 | 55,486 |
| 2006 | 55,911 |
| 2007 | 55,559 |
| 2008 | 53,762 |
| 2009 | 56,867 |
| 2010 | 55,848 |
| 2011 | 56,698 |
| 2012 | 56,728 |
| 2013 | 57,967 |
| 2014 | 58,639 |
| 2015 | 56,299 |
| 2016 | 58,821 |
| 2017 | 57,822 |
| 2018 | 58,171 |
| 2019 | 61,032 |
| 2020 | 53,719 |
| 2021 | 54,156 |
| 2022 | 58,327 |
| 2023 | 57,779 |
| 2024 | 57,064 |
| 2025 | 56,050 |
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 (56.4% of today’s road for 2019). In 2025, 6 of the 17 count points were counted; DfT estimated the rest from earlier counts and local trends.
A127 collisions
Police recorded 363 collisions with the A127 as the first road from 2021 to 2025, 72 of them fatal or serious, including 5 fatal. That is 14.4 per 100 million vehicle miles, lower than the 31.5 for all A-roads in Great Britain. On average there were 2.8 a year for each mile of road.
Reported collisions by year
Down 21.6% from 2021 to 2025.
| Year | Slight | Fatal or serious |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 58 | 16 |
| 2022 | 60 | 11 |
| 2023 | 64 | 15 |
| 2024 | 62 | 19 |
| 2025 | 47 | 11 |
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 |
|---|---|
| A1159 to A13 Southend-on-Sea · 35 collisions | 100.0 |
| A130 to A129 Essex · 53 collisions | 51.1 |
| At A1158 Southend-on-Sea · 20 collisions | 49.3 |
| M25 to A128 Havering, Essex · 56 collisions | 46.8 |
| A1158 to A1159 Southend-on-Sea · 23 collisions | 44.4 |
| A12/A118 to Hall Lane (mid-junction) Havering · 59 collisions | 38.2 |
| Hall Lane (mid-junction) to M25 Havering · 30 collisions | 22.8 |
| Progress Rd to A1015 Southend-on-Sea · 22 collisions | 22.6 |
Source:DfT STATS19,UK Motoring analysis 2021 to 2025 Updated
A further 71 collisions were recorded at junctions where the A127 was the second road; they are not in the figures above. Fatal or serious uses DfT’s adjusted serious figures. How we count collisions
Council areas on the A127
In route order. Each is the highway authority DfT files the count points under.
- Havering
- Essex
- Southend-on-Sea
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 | 17 count points in 2025 | 15 September 2026 |
| Reported collisions | Road safety open data (STATS19) Department for Transport Derived statistics UK Motoring | 2021 to 2025 | 363 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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