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A200 traffic and collisions

The A200 is an A-road of 5.5 miles, from Southwark to Greenwich. This page covers its traffic at 17 DfT count points since 2000 and the collisions police recorded on it.

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17 count points in 2025
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  • Traffic in 2025 33m vehicle miles
  • Average daily traffic 16,218 vehicles a day, both directions
  • Busiest section 26,560 Junction where A200 Tooley Street and Jamaica Road meet to A101
  • HGV share 2.6% of vehicle miles
  • Traffic since 2019 −8.1% same count points
  • Collisions, 2021 to 2025 550 349.1 per 100m vehicle miles

How busy is the A200?

On an average day in 2025, 16,218 vehicles passed each point on the A200, counting both directions. The busiest section is Junction where A200 Tooley Street and Jamaica Road meet to A101 (Southwark), with 26,560 a day; the quietest listed is A2209 to A2211/A206, with 15,334.

Busiest sections, 2025

Junction where A200 Tooley Street and Jamaica Road meet to A101 carries 1.6 times the road’s average flow.

Sections of the A200 with the highest average daily flow, 2025
Section Vehicles a day
Junction where A200 Tooley Street and Jamaica Road meet to A101 Southwark · 0.9 mi · HGVs 1.7% 26,560
A2208 to Council boundary Southwark, Lewisham · 1.1 mi · HGVs 3.2% 23,585
A101 to A2208 Southwark · 0.5 mi · HGVs 2.8% 20,980
A2209 to A2211/A206 Greenwich · 0.6 mi · HGVs 2.5% 15,334

Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated

Route

Southwark to Greenwich · 5.5 miles

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

A200 traffic and collisions by section

10 sections between junctions, in route order. Each is the average of its DfT count points, weighted by length. 6 short link roads and spurs (1.3 miles) count in the road’s totals but are not listed.

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Sections of the A200 in route order, 2025 traffic
#
1A3 to A2205Southwark0.45877.2%−6.2%4
2A2205 to Druid StSouthwark0.14,3456.5%−28.0%fewer than 3
3Crucifix Lane to A100Southwark0.13,5054.7%−7.9%0
4A100 Tower Bridge rd to A200 Tooley StSouthwark0.26,2413.9%−7.0%3
5Junction where A200 Tooley Street and Jamaica Road meet to A101Southwark0.926,5601.7%132355.2
6A101 to A2208Southwark0.520,9802.8%+9.8%58316.0
7At A2208Southwark0.211,9011.9%−33.6%21
8A2208 to Council boundarySouthwark, Lewisham1.123,5853.2%−1.8%134279.4
9Council boundary to A2209Greenwich0.119,8812.8%−22.3%22
10A2209 to A2211/A206Greenwich0.615,3342.5%−22.8%58348.4

Vehicles a day is the average daily flow in 2025. “Since 2019” compares the same count points. Collisions are those with the A200 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.

A200 traffic by vehicle type

Cars and taxis make up 67.1% of the vehicle miles on the A200. HGVs account for 2.6%.

Vehicle mix, 2025

Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated

HGV share of traffic

HGVs as a share of vehicle miles on the A200, by year
Year HGV share
2000 4.9%
2001 5.0%
2002 4.0%
2003 3.8%
2004 4.5%
2005 4.4%
2006 3.8%
2007 3.5%
2008 4.0%
2009 4.2%
2010 4.3%
2011 3.8%
2012 4.1%
2013 4.5%
2014 3.9%
2015 3.8%
2016 3.6%
2017 3.4%
2018 2.6%
2019 2.5%
2020 2.8%
2021 2.7%
2022 2.8%
2023 2.7%
2024 2.7%
2025 2.6%

Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated

A200 traffic trend

Traffic on the A200 came to 32.6 million vehicle miles in 2025. At the count points present in both years, it is down 8.1% on 2019, before the pandemic, and down 8.7% on 2015.

Vehicle miles a year

Like for like, traffic is down 38.8% on 2000.

Vehicle miles on the A200 each year, the whole road as it was that year
Year Vehicle miles
2000 52m
2001 49m
2002 46m
2003 45m
2004 41m
2005 41m
2006 42m
2007 39m
2008 37m
2009 36m
2010 35m
2011 34m
2012 33m
2013 32m
2014 32m
2015 32m
2016 32m
2017 33m
2018 33m
2019 32m
2020 26m
2021 30m
2022 32m
2023 33m
2024 31m
2025 33m

Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated

Average daily flow

Average daily flow along the A200, weighted by link length, by year
Year Vehicles a day
2000 26,117
2001 25,057
2002 23,330
2003 22,922
2004 20,921
2005 20,548
2006 21,384
2007 19,926
2008 18,941
2009 17,987
2010 17,592
2011 17,443
2012 16,560
2013 16,437
2014 16,309
2015 16,403
2016 16,527
2017 16,983
2018 17,127
2019 16,573
2020 13,613
2021 15,050
2022 16,147
2023 16,415
2024 15,213
2025 16,218

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 (76.4% of today’s road for 2019). In 2025, 3 of the 17 count points were counted; DfT estimated the rest from earlier counts and local trends.

A200 collisions

Police recorded 550 collisions with the A200 as the first road from 2021 to 2025, 115 of them fatal or serious. That is 349.1 per 100 million vehicle miles, higher than the 31.5 for all A-roads in Great Britain. On average there were 20.0 a year for each mile of road.

Reported collisions by year

Up 43.5% from 2021 to 2025.

Police-reported collisions on the A200 by year: fatal or serious, and slight
Year SlightFatal or serious
2021 7616
2022 7719
2023 8126
2024 9033
2025 11121

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.

Collisions per 100 million vehicle miles by section of the A200, 2021 to 2025
Section Per 100m vehicle miles
Junction where A200 Tooley Street and Jamaica Road meet to A101 Southwark · 132 collisions 355.2
A2209 to A2211/A206 Greenwich · 58 collisions 348.4
A101 to A2208 Southwark · 58 collisions 316.0
A2208 to Council boundary Southwark, Lewisham · 134 collisions 279.4

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

A further 101 collisions were recorded at junctions where the A200 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 A200

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

  • Southwark
  • Lewisham
  • Greenwich

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 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 550 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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