Trunk A-road

A19 traffic and collisions

The A19 is a trunk A-road of 133.0 miles, from Doncaster to Northumberland. This page covers its traffic at 86 DfT count points since 2000 and the collisions police recorded on it.

Last updated: 15 September 2026
Data source: Department for Transport
Records analysed: 86 count points in 2025
Methodology: View methodology

Traffic in 2025 1.8bn vehicle miles
Average daily traffic 36,543 vehicles a day, both directions
Busiest section 110,220 A66 to A1046
HGV share 6.6% of vehicle miles
Traffic since 2019 +5.3% same count points
Collisions, 2021 to 2025 830 10.0 per 100m vehicle miles

How busy is the A19?

On an average day in 2025, 36,543 vehicles passed each point on the A19, counting both directions. The busiest section is A66 to A1046 (Middlesbrough, Stockton-on-Tees), with 110,220 a day; the quietest listed is Pickering Rd to M62 Junction 34, with 7,974.

Busiest sections, 2025

A66 to A1046 carries 3.0 times the road’s average flow.

Sections of the A19 with the highest average daily flow, 2025
Section	Vehicles a day
A66 to A1046 Middlesbrough, Stockton-on-Tees · 1.7 mi · HGVs 5.8%	110,220
A1130 / A1032 to A66 Middlesbrough · 1.1 mi · HGVs 5.0%	109,525
A1046 to A139 Stockton-on-Tees · 1.3 mi · HGVs 5.7%	104,020
A174 to A1130 / A1032 Middlesbrough · 1.4 mi · HGVs 4.7%	96,402
A183 to A1231 Sunderland · 1.4 mi · HGVs 4.1%	93,657
A19 slips to A1027 / A5027 Stockton-on-Tees · 0.7 mi · HGVs 6.7%	84,939
A1027 / A5027 to A689 Stockton-on-Tees · 2.5 mi · HGVs 6.7%	79,550
A690 to A183 Sunderland · 1.8 mi · HGVs 4.7%	79,368
A193 to A1058 North Tyneside · 0.9 mi · HGVs 4.1%	69,972
A182 to A690 Durham · 2.0 mi · HGVs 6.2%	67,790

Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated 15 Sept 2026

Route

Doncaster to Northumberland · 133.0 miles

Schematic route: each line joins the junctions at the ends of a DfT count point link.

A19 traffic and collisions by section

54 sections between junctions, in route order. Each is the average of its DfT count points, weighted by length. 20 short link roads and spurs (6.2 miles) count in the road’s totals but are not listed.

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Sections of the A19 in route order, 2025 traffic
#
1	A630 to A638Doncaster	0.6	45,877	1.8%	–	10	99.5
2	A638 to Pickering RdDoncaster	2.2	15,907	1.6%	+2.1%	43	72.6
3	Pickering Rd to M62 Junction 34Doncaster, North Yorkshire	9.6	7,974	3.3%	−6.1%	57	42.5
4	M62 Junction 34 to A645North Yorkshire	1.1	11,860	18.3%	−17.5%	4	–
5	A645 to Mill Lane, SelbyNorth Yorkshire	4.5	9,956	7.3%	–	11	67.3
6	A63 to A19North Yorkshire	1.8	10,364	0.9%	+6.4%	14	43.4
7	A19 to A1041North Yorkshire	0.2	8,891	0.9%	−6.0%	4	–
8	A1041 to A63North Yorkshire	1.4	9,468	6.2%	−5.4%	9	–
9	At A19North Yorkshire	0.5	23,800	6.3%	+3.9%	fewer than 3	–
10	A63W to A163North Yorkshire	1.0	21,913	4.8%	+9.3%	7	–
11	A163 to A64North Yorkshire, York	9.6	18,622	4.1%	+5.9%	46	14.9
12	A64/A19(T) to Fordlands RdYork	0.6	14,407	1.8%	−5.8%	6	–
13	Fordlands Rd to A1036 FishergateYork	1.2	15,832	1.8%	−5.8%	17	50.6
14	A1036S to A1036 RINGYork	0.4	9,458	1.9%	−5.4%	6	–
15	A1036 ring to A1176 Water EndYork	0.7	8,245	1.3%	−5.7%	46	450.9
16	A1176 Water End to A1237York	1.6	9,495	1.6%	−12.7%	20	74.4
17	A1237 to A170York, North Yorkshire	19.7	9,346	6.5%	−6.2%	76	23.5
18	A170 to A61North Yorkshire	1.9	40,220	13.2%	+4.8%	7	–
19	At A61North Yorkshire	0.3	38,209	13.2%	+4.8%	3	–
20	At A61North Yorkshire	0.2	32,979	14.7%	−0.3%	fewer than 3	–
21	A61 to A684North Yorkshire	7.8	34,714	14.7%	−0.3%	28	5.9
22	A684 to A172North Yorkshire	1.2	45,345	5.7%	+5.6%	4	–
23	A172 to A67North Yorkshire, Stockton-on-Tees	5.9	37,944	13.9%	+1.5%	19	4.6
24	A67 to A174Stockton-on-Tees, Middlesbrough	4.4	41,641	12.5%	+2.9%	11	3.5
25	A174 to A1130 / A1032Middlesbrough	1.4	96,402	4.7%	+2.8%	18	7.8
26	A1130 / A1032 to A66Middlesbrough	1.1	109,525	5.0%	+1.6%	17	8.2
27	A66 to A1046Middlesbrough, Stockton-on-Tees	1.7	110,220	5.8%	+2.4%	18	6.1
28	A1046 to A139Stockton-on-Tees	1.3	104,020	5.7%	0.0%	13	5.8
29	A19 slips to A1027 / A5027Stockton-on-Tees	0.7	84,939	6.7%	−4.1%	8	–
30	A1027 / A5027 to A689Stockton-on-Tees	2.5	79,550	6.7%	+1.0%	29	8.4
31	A689 to A19 splitStockton-on-Tees, Hartlepool	1.0	55,418	6.1%	+6.4%	4	–
32	A19 SPUR to A179Hartlepool, Durham	4.3	61,376	6.0%	+12.4%	21	4.8
33	A179 / B1280 to A181Durham	3.4	58,615	6.4%	+4.2%	10	2.9
34	A181 to A19(T)Durham	1.8	66,265	5.5%	–	11	5.6
35	At A19(T)Durham	0.7	50,802	6.0%	–	3	–
36	At A19(T)Durham	1.0	62,560	5.7%	–	fewer than 3	–
37	A1086 to A182Durham	0.4	68,791	5.6%	−4.9%	0	–
38	A182 to A690Durham	2.0	67,790	6.2%	+10.1%	6	–
39	A182 to A1018Durham	2.1	62,299	5.2%	+3.7%	6	–
40	A1018 to A690Durham, Sunderland	3.9	57,356	6.3%	+1.6%	18	4.7
41	A690 to A183Sunderland	1.8	79,368	4.7%	+11.8%	18	7.5
42	A183 to A1231Sunderland	1.4	93,657	4.1%	−0.8%	23	10.6
43	A1231 to A1290Sunderland, South Tyneside	1.7	66,226	4.1%	+8.6%	12	6.5
44	A184/A19 Junction to Downhill LaneSouth Tyneside	1.8	64,776	5.4%	–	fewer than 3	–
45	A84 to Abingdon Way/slip from Hedworth LaneSouth Tyneside	1.1	54,623	5.0%	+21.5%	8	–
46	Abingdon Way/slip from Hedworth Lane to A194South Tyneside	0.6	61,042	4.6%	+29.4%	6	–
47	A194 to A185 (TUNNEL)South Tyneside	0.9	61,152	5.2%	+37.6%	9	–
48	A185 (TUNNEL) to A187South Tyneside, North Tyneside	1.3	32,737	4.6%	–	fewer than 3	–
49	A193 to A1058North Tyneside	0.9	69,972	4.1%	+22.7%	15	15.6
50	A1058 to A191/A186North Tyneside	1.8	64,918	3.7%	+31.2%	18	9.1
51	A191 / A186 to A1056North Tyneside	1.7	67,292	4.8%	+17.0%	23	11.9
52	A1056 to A189North Tyneside, Northumberland	1.8	51,704	4.4%	+13.3%	15	9.3
53	A189 to A1171Northumberland	0.6	39,318	4.6%	+32.2%	12	30.5
54	A1171 to A1068Northumberland	1.7	47,595	3.8%	+14.6%	19	14.7

Vehicles a day is the average daily flow in 2025. “Since 2019” compares the same count points. Collisions are those with the A19 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.

A19 traffic by vehicle type

Cars and taxis make up 74.5% of the vehicle miles on the A19. HGVs account for 6.6%, rising to 18.3% on M62 Junction 34 to A645.

Vehicle mix, 2025

Share of vehicle miles on the A19 by vehicle type
Category	Share
Cars and taxis	74.5%
Vans (LGVs)	18.3%
HGVs	6.6%
Motorcycles	0.4%
Buses and coaches	0.2%

Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated 15 Sept 2026

HGV share of traffic

HGVs as a share of vehicle miles on the A19, by year
Year	HGV share
2000	10.0%
2001	9.6%
2002	9.8%
2003	9.3%
2004	9.2%
2005	9.1%
2006	8.7%
2007	8.9%
2008	8.9%
2009	8.0%
2010	8.1%
2011	8.0%
2012	8.1%
2013	8.0%
2014	7.8%
2015	7.8%
2016	7.7%
2017	7.6%
2018	7.6%
2019	7.3%
2020	8.6%
2021	8.3%
2022	7.4%
2023	7.1%
2024	7.0%
2025	6.6%

Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated 15 Sept 2026

A19 traffic trend

Traffic on the A19 came to 1.77 billion vehicle miles in 2025. At the count points present in both years, it is up 5.3% on 2019, before the pandemic, and up 12.5% on 2015.

Vehicle miles a year

Like for like, traffic is up 35.8% on 2000.

Vehicle miles on the A19 each year, the whole road as it was that year
Year	Vehicle miles
2000	1.3bn
2001	1.3bn
2002	1.3bn
2003	1.4bn
2004	1.4bn
2005	1.4bn
2006	1.4bn
2007	1.4bn
2008	1.4bn
2009	1.4bn
2010	1.4bn
2011	1.4bn
2012	1.4bn
2013	1.4bn
2014	1.5bn
2015	1.5bn
2016	1.6bn
2017	1.6bn
2018	1.6bn
2019	1.7bn
2020	1.2bn
2021	1.4bn
2022	1.7bn
2023	1.7bn
2024	1.7bn
2025	1.8bn

Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated 15 Sept 2026

Average daily flow

Average daily flow along the A19, weighted by link length, by year
Year	Vehicles a day
2000	27,180
2001	28,168
2002	28,780
2003	29,427
2004	29,682
2005	29,840
2006	30,421
2007	30,294
2008	30,394
2009	30,378
2010	29,820
2011	30,471
2012	30,656
2013	30,525
2014	31,419
2015	32,461
2016	33,641
2017	34,202
2018	34,036
2019	34,554
2020	24,996
2021	28,860
2022	33,996
2023	35,107
2024	35,191
2025	36,543

Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated 15 Sept 2026

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, 42 of the 86 count points were counted; DfT estimated the rest from earlier counts and local trends.

A19 collisions

Police recorded 830 collisions with the A19 as the first road from 2021 to 2025, 246 of them fatal or serious, including 33 fatal. That is 10.0 per 100 million vehicle miles, lower than the 31.5 for all A-roads in Great Britain. On average there were 1.3 a year for each mile of road.

Reported collisions by year

Down 4.2% from 2021 to 2025.

Source:DfT STATS19,UK Motoring analysis 2021 to 2025 Updated 15 Sept 2026

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.

Collisions per 100 million vehicle miles by section of the A19, 2021 to 2025
Section	Per 100m vehicle miles
A1036 ring to A1176 Water End York · 46 collisions	450.9
A630 to A638 Doncaster · 10 collisions	99.5
A1176 Water End to A1237 York · 20 collisions	74.4
A638 to Pickering Rd Doncaster · 43 collisions	72.6
A645 to Mill Lane, Selby North Yorkshire · 11 collisions	67.3
Fordlands Rd to A1036 Fishergate York · 17 collisions	50.6
A63 to A19 North Yorkshire · 14 collisions	43.4
Pickering Rd to M62 Junction 34 Doncaster, North Yorkshire · 57 collisions	42.5

Source:DfT STATS19,UK Motoring analysis 2021 to 2025 Updated 15 Sept 2026

A further 120 collisions were recorded at junctions where the A19 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 A19

In route order. Each is the highway authority DfT files the count points under.

Doncaster
North Yorkshire
York
Stockton-on-Tees
Middlesbrough
Hartlepool
Durham
Sunderland
South Tyneside
North Tyneside
Northumberland

Planned closures on the A19 in England

National Highways has 54 planned closures on the A19 between 16 September 2026 and 30 September 2026, all of them starting in that period. 19 close a carriageway rather than a lane or slip road, and 53 start between 7pm and 6am.

Lane or slip A19/A139 Norton southbound entry slip road lane 1 closure

16 Sept, 09:00 to 15:30 Road maintenance
Lane or slip A19 southbound Castle Eden to A179 Sheraton Interchange lane 1 closure including slip roads

16 Sept 20:00 to 23 Sept 06:00 Road maintenance
Lane or slip A19 southbound Castle Eden to A179 Sheraton Interchange lane 1 closure including slip roads

16 Sept 20:00 to 26 Sept 06:00 Road maintenance
Lane or slip A19 Redhill Overbridge northbound lane 2 closure

16 Sept 20:00 to 18 Sept 05:00 Road maintenance
Carriageway A19/A1231 Hylton Grange Interchange southbound entry slip road closure

16 Sept 20:00 to 30 Sept 06:00 Road maintenance
Carriageway A19 northbound Easington to A182 Cold Hesledon Interchange carriageway closure including slip roads

16 Sept 20:00 to 29 Sept 06:00 Construction work Also affects A182
Lane or slip A19 Killingworth to Holystone Southbound Lane 2 Closure

16 Sept 20:00 to 17 Sept 06:00 Road maintenance
Lane or slip A19 Northbound Between Stockton Road and A1046 Portrack Interchange. Lane 2 Closure.

16 Sept 20:00 to 30 Sept 06:00 1 of 2 lanes Road maintenance

46 more planned closures in this period are not shown.

Planned closures only: National Highways can cancel or change them, and closures caused by incidents are not shown. Council roads in England are not covered. Roadworks and closures across the UK

Source:National Highways 2026-09-16 to 2026-09-30 Updated 16 Sept 2026

Data sources and methodology

Datasets used on this page
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	86 count points in 2025	15 September 2026
Reported collisions	Road safety open data (STATS19) Department for Transport Derived statistics UK Motoring	2021 to 2025	830 reported collisions	15 September 2026
Planned closures	Transport Data Feeds (DATEX II) National Highways	2026-09-16 to 2026-09-30	2,304 planned closure schemes	16 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”.

How we calculate these figures All data sources

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

How busy is the A19?

Route

A19 traffic and collisions by section

A19 traffic by vehicle type

A19 traffic trend

A19 collisions

Council areas on the A19

Roads that meet the A19

Planned closures on the A19 in England

Data sources and methodology

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