A-road

A211 traffic and collisions

The A211 is an A-road of 3.9 miles, from Greenwich to Bexley. This page covers its traffic at 5 DfT count points since 2000 and the collisions police recorded on it.

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5 count points in 2025
Methodology
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  • Traffic in 2025 15m vehicle miles
  • Average daily traffic 10,289 vehicles a day, both directions
  • Busiest section 16,619 A2001 to A224
  • HGV share 1.0% of vehicle miles
  • Traffic since 2019 −5.5% same count points
  • Collisions, 2021 to 2025 97 135.7 per 100m vehicle miles

How busy is the A211?

On an average day in 2025, 10,289 vehicles passed each point on the A211, counting both directions. The busiest section is A2001 to A224 (Bexley), with 16,619 a day; the quietest listed is A210 to A222, with 8,211.

Busiest sections, 2025

A2001 to A224 carries 1.6 times the road’s average flow.

Sections of the A211 with the highest average daily flow, 2025
Section Vehicles a day
A2001 to A224 Bexley · 0.7 mi · HGVs 0.6% 16,619
A210 to A222 Greenwich, Bexley · 2.6 mi · HGVs 1.4% 8,211

Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated

Route

Greenwich to Bexley · 3.9 miles

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

A211 traffic and collisions by section

4 sections between junctions, in route order. Each is the average of its DfT count points, weighted by length.

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Sections of the A211 in route order, 2025 traffic
#
1A210 to A222Greenwich, Bexley2.68,2111.4%−2.6%59151.3
2A222 to A2001Bexley0.29,5520.7%−14.6%11
3A2001 to A224Bexley0.716,6190.6%−4.3%1577.2
4A224 to A223Bexley0.413,0830.2%−14.6%11

Vehicles a day is the average daily flow in 2025. “Since 2019” compares the same count points. Collisions are those with the A211 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.

A211 traffic by vehicle type

Cars and taxis make up 81.0% of the vehicle miles on the A211. HGVs account for 1.0%.

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 A211, by year
Year HGV share
2000 1.4%
2001 1.4%
2002 1.4%
2003 1.3%
2004 1.4%
2005 1.3%
2006 1.3%
2007 1.5%
2008 1.4%
2009 1.3%
2010 1.4%
2011 1.4%
2012 1.8%
2013 1.9%
2014 1.7%
2015 1.7%
2016 1.8%
2017 1.6%
2018 1.5%
2019 1.4%
2020 1.0%
2021 1.0%
2022 1.0%
2023 1.0%
2024 1.0%
2025 1.0%

Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated

A211 traffic trend

Traffic on the A211 came to 14.6 million vehicle miles in 2025. At the count points present in both years, it is down 5.5% on 2019, before the pandemic, and down 3.6% on 2015.

Vehicle miles a year

Like for like, traffic is down 16.1% on 2000.

Vehicle miles on the A211 each year, the whole road as it was that year
Year Vehicle miles
2000 18m
2001 19m
2002 19m
2003 19m
2004 20m
2005 19m
2006 20m
2007 20m
2008 18m
2009 18m
2010 18m
2011 18m
2012 15m
2013 15m
2014 15m
2015 15m
2016 15m
2017 15m
2018 15m
2019 16m
2020 13m
2021 14m
2022 14m
2023 14m
2024 14m
2025 15m

Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated

Average daily flow

Average daily flow along the A211, weighted by link length, by year
Year Vehicles a day
2000 12,259
2001 13,008
2002 13,393
2003 13,305
2004 13,706
2005 13,606
2006 13,841
2007 13,708
2008 12,705
2009 12,594
2010 12,318
2011 12,297
2012 10,571
2013 10,646
2014 10,681
2015 10,672
2016 10,549
2017 10,425
2018 10,762
2019 10,882
2020 9,044
2021 9,723
2022 10,070
2023 10,081
2024 10,049
2025 10,289

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, 1 of the 5 count points were counted; DfT estimated the rest from earlier counts and local trends.

A211 collisions

Police recorded 97 collisions with the A211 as the first road from 2021 to 2025, fewer than 3 of them fatal or serious. That is 135.7 per 100 million vehicle miles, higher than the 31.5 for all A-roads in Great Britain. On average there were 5.0 a year for each mile of road.

Reported collisions by year

Down 26.3% from 2021 to 2025.

Police-reported collisions on the A211 by year
Year Collisions
2021 19
2022 27
2023 20
2024 17
2025 14

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 A211, 2021 to 2025
Section Per 100m vehicle miles
A210 to A222 Greenwich, Bexley · 59 collisions 151.3
A2001 to A224 Bexley · 15 collisions 77.2

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

A further 20 collisions were recorded at junctions where the A211 was the second road; they are not in the figures above. Fatal or serious uses DfT’s adjusted serious figures. 99.0% of the collisions could be placed on a section. How we count collisions

Council areas on the A211

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

  • Greenwich
  • Bexley

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 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 97 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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