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A202 traffic and collisions
The A202 is an A-road of 5.5 miles, from Westminster to Lewisham. This page covers its traffic at 20 DfT count points since 2000 and the collisions police recorded on it.
- Traffic in 2025 42m vehicle miles
- Average daily traffic 20,773 vehicles a day, both directions
- Busiest section 22,844 Wilton Rd to A3213
- HGV share 3.4% of vehicle miles
- Traffic since 2019 −6.7% same count points
- Collisions, 2021 to 2025 757 362.6 per 100m vehicle miles
How busy is the A202?
On an average day in 2025, 20,773 vehicles passed each point on the A202, counting both directions. The busiest section is Wilton Rd to A3213 (Westminster), with 22,844 a day; the quietest listed is A23 to Medlar St, with 18,110.
Busiest sections, 2025
Wilton Rd to A3213 carries 1.1 times the road’s average flow.
| Section | Vehicles a day |
|---|---|
| Wilton Rd to A3213 Westminster · 0.6 mi · HGVs 3.1% | 22,844 |
| A202 Clayton Rd to A2214 Lausanne rd Southwark · 0.6 mi · HGVs 3.8% | 20,864 |
| A215 to Rye Lane Southwark · 1.1 mi · HGVs 4.1% | 20,785 |
| A23 to Medlar St Lambeth, Southwark · 0.7 mi · HGVs 2.3% | 18,110 |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
Route
Westminster to Lewisham · 5.5 miles
A202 traffic and collisions by section
16 sections between junctions, in route order. Each is the average of its DfT count points, weighted by length. 2 short link roads and spurs (0.4 miles) count in the road’s totals but are not listed.
Show all 16 sections Tap a column heading to sort
| # | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Buckingham Palace Rd to Victoria StWestminster | 20,948 | 0 |
| 2 | Wilton Rd/Vauxhall Bridge Rd to Bressenden PlaceWestminster | 19,578 | 3 |
| 3 | Victoria St/Wilton Rd to Wilton RdWestminster | 13,564 | 19 |
| 4 | Wilton Rd to A3213Westminster | 22,844 | 43 |
| 5 | A3213 to A3212Westminster | 30,437 | 16 |
| 6 | A3212 to A3036Westminster, Lambeth | 44,474 | 48 |
| 7 | A3204 to Durham StLambeth | 17,696 | 29 |
| 8 | Durham St to Camberwell RdLambeth | 22,613 | 25 |
| 9 | A3 to A23Lambeth | 23,681 | 17 |
| 10 | A23 to Medlar StLambeth, Southwark | 18,110 | 101 |
| 11 | Medlar St to A215Southwark | 20,283 | 47 |
| 12 | A215 to Rye LaneSouthwark | 20,785 | 220 |
| 13 | Rye Lane to A202 Clayton StSouthwark | 27,546 | 52 |
| 14 | A202 Clayton Rd to A2214 Lausanne rdSouthwark | 20,864 | 98 |
| 15 | A2214 Lausanne Rd to A202 Kender StLewisham | 18,248 | 16 |
| 16 | At A202Lewisham | 15,705 | 21 |
Vehicles a day is the average daily flow in 2025. “Since 2019” compares the same count points. Collisions are those with the A202 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.
A202 traffic by vehicle type
Cars and taxis make up 63.6% of the vehicle miles on the A202. HGVs account for 3.4%.
Vehicle mix, 2025
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
HGV share of traffic
| Year | HGV share |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 5.1% |
| 2001 | 5.3% |
| 2002 | 4.2% |
| 2003 | 3.9% |
| 2004 | 3.5% |
| 2005 | 3.8% |
| 2006 | 3.5% |
| 2007 | 3.7% |
| 2008 | 3.9% |
| 2009 | 4.0% |
| 2010 | 4.0% |
| 2011 | 3.6% |
| 2012 | 4.0% |
| 2013 | 4.2% |
| 2014 | 3.9% |
| 2015 | 3.7% |
| 2016 | 3.7% |
| 2017 | 3.5% |
| 2018 | 3.1% |
| 2019 | 3.1% |
| 2020 | 3.6% |
| 2021 | 3.6% |
| 2022 | 3.7% |
| 2023 | 3.6% |
| 2024 | 3.5% |
| 2025 | 3.4% |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
A202 traffic trend
Traffic on the A202 came to 41.7 million vehicle miles in 2025. At the count points present in both years, it is down 6.7% on 2019, before the pandemic, and down 3.1% on 2015.
Vehicle miles a year
Like for like, traffic is down 29.4% on 2000.
| Year | Vehicle miles |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 61m |
| 2001 | 59m |
| 2002 | 53m |
| 2003 | 55m |
| 2004 | 52m |
| 2005 | 53m |
| 2006 | 55m |
| 2007 | 56m |
| 2008 | 54m |
| 2009 | 52m |
| 2010 | 53m |
| 2011 | 51m |
| 2012 | 45m |
| 2013 | 43m |
| 2014 | 43m |
| 2015 | 43m |
| 2016 | 43m |
| 2017 | 42m |
| 2018 | 44m |
| 2019 | 45m |
| 2020 | 38m |
| 2021 | 41m |
| 2022 | 43m |
| 2023 | 43m |
| 2024 | 41m |
| 2025 | 42m |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
Average daily flow
| Year | Vehicles a day |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 28,981 |
| 2001 | 27,933 |
| 2002 | 25,137 |
| 2003 | 25,824 |
| 2004 | 24,726 |
| 2005 | 25,048 |
| 2006 | 26,033 |
| 2007 | 26,388 |
| 2008 | 25,631 |
| 2009 | 24,658 |
| 2010 | 25,172 |
| 2011 | 24,205 |
| 2012 | 23,306 |
| 2013 | 22,032 |
| 2014 | 22,202 |
| 2015 | 22,015 |
| 2016 | 22,092 |
| 2017 | 21,833 |
| 2018 | 22,745 |
| 2019 | 22,269 |
| 2020 | 19,052 |
| 2021 | 20,291 |
| 2022 | 21,169 |
| 2023 | 21,446 |
| 2024 | 20,330 |
| 2025 | 20,773 |
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, 6 of the 20 count points were counted; DfT estimated the rest from earlier counts and local trends.
A202 collisions
Police recorded 757 collisions with the A202 as the first road from 2021 to 2025, 149 of them fatal or serious. That is 362.6 per 100 million vehicle miles, higher than the 31.5 for all A-roads in Great Britain. On average there were 27.5 a year for each mile of road.
Reported collisions by year
Down 6.4% from 2021 to 2025.
| Year | Slight | Fatal or serious |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 127 | 29 |
| 2022 | 144 | 27 |
| 2023 | 113 | 23 |
| 2024 | 108 | 40 |
| 2025 | 116 | 30 |
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 |
|---|---|
| A215 to Rye Lane Southwark · 220 collisions | 529.7 |
| A202 Clayton Rd to A2214 Lausanne rd Southwark · 98 collisions | 426.3 |
| A23 to Medlar St Lambeth, Southwark · 101 collisions | 353.7 |
| Wilton Rd to A3213 Westminster · 43 collisions | 187.4 |
Source:DfT STATS19,UK Motoring analysis 2021 to 2025 Updated
A further 140 collisions were recorded at junctions where the A202 was the second road; they are not in the figures above. Fatal or serious uses DfT’s adjusted serious figures. 99.7% of the collisions could be placed on a section. How we count collisions
Council areas on the A202
In route order. Each is the highway authority DfT files the count points under.
- Westminster
- Lambeth
- Southwark
- Lewisham
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 | 20 count points in 2025 | 15 September 2026 |
| Reported collisions | Road safety open data (STATS19) Department for Transport Derived statistics UK Motoring | 2021 to 2025 | 757 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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