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A144 traffic and collisions
The A144 is an A-road of 14.2 miles, in Suffolk. This page covers its traffic at 5 DfT count points since 2000 and the collisions police recorded on it.
- Traffic in 2025 31m vehicle miles
- Average daily traffic 5,981 vehicles a day, both directions
- Busiest section 8,442 B1117 London Road Rndbt to B1123 Angel's Link Rndbt
- HGV share 4.4% of vehicle miles
- Traffic since 2019 +18.2% same count points
- Collisions, 2021 to 2025 29 21.8 per 100m vehicle miles
How busy is the A144?
On an average day in 2025, 5,981 vehicles passed each point on the A144, counting both directions. The busiest section is B1117 London Road Rndbt to B1123 Angel's Link Rndbt (Suffolk), with 8,442 a day; the quietest listed is A12 to B1117, with 4,153.
Busiest sections, 2025
B1117 London Road Rndbt to B1123 Angel's Link Rndbt carries 1.4 times the road’s average flow.
| Section | Vehicles a day |
|---|---|
| B1117 London Road Rndbt to B1123 Angel's Link Rndbt Suffolk · 0.6 mi · HGVs 3.2% | 8,442 |
| B1123 to B1435 Suffolk · 8.7 mi · HGVs 4.6% | 6,620 |
| B1435 to A143 Suffolk · 0.5 mi · HGVs 2.4% | 5,236 |
| A12 to B1117 Suffolk · 4.2 mi · HGVs 4.8% | 4,153 |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
Route
In Suffolk · 14.2 miles
A144 traffic and collisions by section
5 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 to B1117Suffolk | 4,153 | 4 |
| 2 | B1117 London Road Rndbt to B1123 Angel's Link RndbtSuffolk | 8,442 | 0 |
| 3 | B1123 Angel Link to B1123 Quay StreetSuffolk | 11,040 | 3 |
| 4 | B1123 to B1435Suffolk | 6,620 | 16 |
| 5 | B1435 to A143Suffolk | 5,236 | fewer than 3 |
Vehicles a day is the average daily flow in 2025. “Since 2019” compares the same count points. Collisions are those with the A144 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.
A144 traffic by vehicle type
Cars and taxis make up 75.6% of the vehicle miles on the A144. HGVs account for 4.4%.
Vehicle mix, 2025
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
HGV share of traffic
| Year | HGV share |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 7.4% |
| 2001 | 7.4% |
| 2002 | 8.3% |
| 2003 | 7.8% |
| 2004 | 7.4% |
| 2005 | 8.1% |
| 2006 | 8.5% |
| 2007 | 7.6% |
| 2008 | 7.6% |
| 2009 | 7.4% |
| 2010 | 7.6% |
| 2011 | 7.6% |
| 2012 | 7.6% |
| 2013 | 7.7% |
| 2014 | 7.7% |
| 2015 | 7.0% |
| 2016 | 6.3% |
| 2017 | 6.4% |
| 2018 | 6.5% |
| 2019 | 6.6% |
| 2020 | 7.7% |
| 2021 | 7.3% |
| 2022 | 7.0% |
| 2023 | 6.0% |
| 2024 | 4.5% |
| 2025 | 4.4% |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
A144 traffic trend
Traffic on the A144 came to 31 million vehicle miles in 2025. At the count points present in both years, it is up 18.2% on 2019, before the pandemic, and up 20.9% on 2015.
Vehicle miles a year
Like for like, traffic is up 29.2% on 2000.
| Year | Vehicle miles |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 25m |
| 2001 | 26m |
| 2002 | 28m |
| 2003 | 28m |
| 2004 | 29m |
| 2005 | 28m |
| 2006 | 29m |
| 2007 | 28m |
| 2008 | 27m |
| 2009 | 26m |
| 2010 | 26m |
| 2011 | 26m |
| 2012 | 26m |
| 2013 | 26m |
| 2014 | 26m |
| 2015 | 27m |
| 2016 | 27m |
| 2017 | 27m |
| 2018 | 26m |
| 2019 | 26m |
| 2020 | 20m |
| 2021 | 22m |
| 2022 | 24m |
| 2023 | 25m |
| 2024 | 31m |
| 2025 | 31m |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
Average daily flow
| Year | Vehicles a day |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 4,810 |
| 2001 | 4,868 |
| 2002 | 5,309 |
| 2003 | 5,332 |
| 2004 | 5,518 |
| 2005 | 5,323 |
| 2006 | 5,443 |
| 2007 | 5,405 |
| 2008 | 5,077 |
| 2009 | 5,013 |
| 2010 | 4,941 |
| 2011 | 4,955 |
| 2012 | 4,873 |
| 2013 | 4,904 |
| 2014 | 5,027 |
| 2015 | 5,071 |
| 2016 | 5,066 |
| 2017 | 5,135 |
| 2018 | 5,051 |
| 2019 | 5,059 |
| 2020 | 3,854 |
| 2021 | 4,274 |
| 2022 | 4,609 |
| 2023 | 4,898 |
| 2024 | 5,910 |
| 2025 | 5,981 |
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. In 2025, 0 of the 5 count points were counted; DfT estimated the rest from earlier counts and local trends.
A144 collisions
Police recorded 29 collisions with the A144 as the first road from 2021 to 2025, 7 of them fatal or serious. That is 21.8 per 100 million vehicle miles, lower than the 31.5 for all A-roads in Great Britain. On average there were 0.4 a year for each mile of road.
Reported collisions by year
Up 16.7% from 2021 to 2025.
| Year | Collisions |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 6 |
| 2022 | 4 |
| 2023 | 7 |
| 2024 | 5 |
| 2025 | 7 |
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 |
|---|---|
| B1123 to B1435 Suffolk · 16 collisions | 18.4 |
Source:DfT STATS19,UK Motoring analysis 2021 to 2025 Updated
A further 11 collisions were recorded at junctions where the A144 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 A144
In route order. Each is the highway authority DfT files the count points under.
- Suffolk
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 | 29 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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