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A2033 traffic and collisions
The A2033 is an A-road of 2.4 miles, in Kent. This page covers its traffic at 12 DfT count points since 2000 and the collisions police recorded on it.
- Traffic in 2025 7.0m vehicle miles
- Average daily traffic 7,953 vehicles a day, both directions
- Busiest section 12,248 A2034 to A2033 Grace Hill
- HGV share 0.7% of vehicle miles
- Traffic since 2019 −5.9% same count points
- Collisions, 2021 to 2025 46 136.3 per 100m vehicle miles
How busy is the A2033?
On an average day in 2025, 7,953 vehicles passed each point on the A2033, counting both directions. The busiest section is A2034 to A2033 Grace Hill (Kent), with 12,248 a day; the quietest listed is A2033 split to A2034, with 5,544.
Busiest sections, 2025
A2034 to A2033 Grace Hill carries 1.5 times the road’s average flow.
| Section | Vehicles a day |
|---|---|
| A2034 to A2033 Grace Hill Kent · 0.1 mi · HGVs 0.9% | 12,248 |
| At A2034 Kent · 0.1 mi · HGVs 0.8% | 9,511 |
| A259(T) Earls Ave to A2033 Castle Hill Ave Kent · 0.3 mi · HGVs 0.4% | 9,086 |
| A260 Tontine St/A2033 Dover Rd to A260 Southern Way Kent · 0.4 mi · HGVs 0.8% | 8,021 |
| Shellons St/Foresters Way roundabout to A260 Kent · 0.2 mi · HGVs 0.8% | 5,685 |
| A2033 merge to A2033 split Kent · 0.2 mi · HGVs 0.7% | 5,569 |
| A2033 split to A2034 Kent · 0.1 mi · HGVs 1.1% | 5,544 |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
Route
In Kent · 2.4 miles
A2033 traffic and collisions by section
7 sections between junctions, in route order. Each is the average of its DfT count points, weighted by length. 5 short link roads and spurs (1.0 miles) count in the road’s totals but are not listed.
Sections Tap a column heading to sort
| # | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A259(T) Earls Ave to A2033 Castle Hill AveKent | 9,086 | 9 |
| 2 | A2033 merge to A2033 splitKent | 5,569 | 10 |
| 3 | A2033 split to A2034Kent | 5,544 | fewer than 3 |
| 4 | At A2034Kent | 9,511 | fewer than 3 |
| 5 | A2034 to A2033 Grace HillKent | 12,248 | 4 |
| 6 | Shellons St/Foresters Way roundabout to A260Kent | 5,685 | 3 |
| 7 | A260 Tontine St/A2033 Dover Rd to A260 Southern WayKent | 8,021 | 8 |
Vehicles a day is the average daily flow in 2025. “Since 2019” compares the same count points. Collisions are those with the A2033 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.
A2033 traffic by vehicle type
Cars and taxis make up 85.2% of the vehicle miles on the A2033. HGVs account for 0.7%.
Vehicle mix, 2025
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
HGV share of traffic
| Year | HGV share |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 1.2% |
| 2001 | 1.1% |
| 2002 | 1.1% |
| 2003 | 1.1% |
| 2004 | 1.3% |
| 2005 | 1.4% |
| 2006 | 1.4% |
| 2007 | 1.3% |
| 2008 | 1.1% |
| 2009 | 1.0% |
| 2010 | 1.0% |
| 2011 | 1.0% |
| 2012 | 1.1% |
| 2013 | 1.1% |
| 2014 | 1.1% |
| 2015 | 1.0% |
| 2016 | 0.9% |
| 2017 | 0.9% |
| 2018 | 0.9% |
| 2019 | 0.8% |
| 2020 | 0.9% |
| 2021 | 0.8% |
| 2022 | 0.8% |
| 2023 | 0.7% |
| 2024 | 0.7% |
| 2025 | 0.7% |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
A2033 traffic trend
Traffic on the A2033 came to 7 million vehicle miles in 2025. At the count points present in both years, it is down 5.9% on 2019, before the pandemic, and down 10.0% on 2015.
Vehicle miles a year
Like for like, traffic is down 14.1% on 2000.
| Year | Vehicle miles |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 8.1m |
| 2001 | 8.1m |
| 2002 | 8.1m |
| 2003 | 7.9m |
| 2004 | 8.4m |
| 2005 | 8.1m |
| 2006 | 7.9m |
| 2007 | 7.8m |
| 2008 | 7.4m |
| 2009 | 7.6m |
| 2010 | 7.6m |
| 2011 | 7.6m |
| 2012 | 7.5m |
| 2013 | 7.3m |
| 2014 | 7.6m |
| 2015 | 7.7m |
| 2016 | 7.7m |
| 2017 | 7.7m |
| 2018 | 7.2m |
| 2019 | 7.4m |
| 2020 | 5.7m |
| 2021 | 6.3m |
| 2022 | 6.7m |
| 2023 | 6.8m |
| 2024 | 6.9m |
| 2025 | 7.0m |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
Average daily flow
| Year | Vehicles a day |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 9,259 |
| 2001 | 9,193 |
| 2002 | 9,290 |
| 2003 | 9,001 |
| 2004 | 9,536 |
| 2005 | 9,201 |
| 2006 | 9,039 |
| 2007 | 8,854 |
| 2008 | 8,445 |
| 2009 | 8,666 |
| 2010 | 8,706 |
| 2011 | 8,681 |
| 2012 | 8,591 |
| 2013 | 8,384 |
| 2014 | 8,638 |
| 2015 | 8,836 |
| 2016 | 8,776 |
| 2017 | 8,737 |
| 2018 | 8,219 |
| 2019 | 8,455 |
| 2020 | 6,521 |
| 2021 | 7,167 |
| 2022 | 7,669 |
| 2023 | 7,806 |
| 2024 | 7,927 |
| 2025 | 7,953 |
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 12 count points were counted; DfT estimated the rest from earlier counts and local trends.
A2033 collisions
Police recorded 46 collisions with the A2033 as the first road from 2021 to 2025, 10 of them fatal or serious. That is 136.3 per 100 million vehicle miles, higher than the 31.5 for all A-roads in Great Britain. On average there were 3.8 a year for each mile of road.
Reported collisions by year
Down 33.3% from 2021 to 2025.
| Year | Collisions |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 12 |
| 2022 | 7 |
| 2023 | 10 |
| 2024 | 9 |
| 2025 | 8 |
Source:DfT STATS19,UK Motoring analysis 2021 to 2025 Updated
A further 7 collisions were recorded at junctions where the A2033 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 A2033
In route order. Each is the highway authority DfT files the count points under.
- Kent
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 | 12 count points in 2025 | 15 September 2026 |
| Reported collisions | Road safety open data (STATS19) Department for Transport Derived statistics UK Motoring | 2021 to 2025 | 46 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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