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A245 traffic and collisions
The A245 is an A-road of 13.3 miles, in Surrey. This page covers its traffic at 13 DfT count points since 2000 and the collisions police recorded on it.
- Traffic in 2025 87m vehicle miles
- Average daily traffic 17,929 vehicles a day, both directions
- Busiest section 28,633 A3 to B374 Brooklands Rd
- HGV share 1.7% of vehicle miles
- Traffic since 2019 +2.5% same count points
- Collisions, 2021 to 2025 229 55.6 per 100m vehicle miles
How busy is the A245?
On an average day in 2025, 17,929 vehicles passed each point on the A245, counting both directions. The busiest section is A3 to B374 Brooklands Rd (Surrey), with 28,633 a day; the quietest listed is Cleeve Rd, Leatherhead to Blundel Lane, Stoke D'Abernon, with 6,576.
Busiest sections, 2025
A3 to B374 Brooklands Rd carries 1.6 times the road’s average flow.
| Section | Vehicles a day |
|---|---|
| A3 to B374 Brooklands Rd Surrey · 1.7 mi · HGVs 2.4% | 28,633 |
| B374 Brooklands Rd to A318 Oyster Lane Surrey · 0.6 mi · HGVs 2.7% | 26,874 |
| A318 Oyster Lane to A320 Surrey · 3.6 mi · HGVs 1.1% | 22,525 |
| A320 to A3046 Surrey · 0.8 mi · HGVs 1.3% | 17,361 |
| Blundel Lane, Stoke D'Abernon to A307 Surrey · 1.7 mi · HGVs 1.6% | 15,760 |
| Cleeve Rd, Leatherhead to Blundel Lane, Stoke D'Abernon Surrey · 2.9 mi · HGVs 1.9% | 6,576 |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
Route
In Surrey · 13.3 miles
A245 traffic and collisions by section
12 sections between junctions, in route order. Each is the average of its DfT count points, weighted by length. 1 short link roads and spurs (0.4 miles) count in the road’s totals but are not listed.
Sections Tap a column heading to sort
| # | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A243 to B2430Surrey | 11,945 | 5 |
| 2 | B2430 to Bull HillSurrey | 15,251 | 10 |
| 3 | Bull Hill to Station ApproachSurrey | 15,710 | 11 |
| 4 | Station Approach to Cleeve RdSurrey | 7,299 | 3 |
| 5 | Cleeve Rd, Leatherhead to Blundel Lane, Stoke D'AbernonSurrey | 6,576 | 20 |
| 6 | Blundel Lane, Stoke D'Abernon to A307Surrey | 15,760 | 31 |
| 7 | A307 to Matthew Arnold CloseSurrey | 27,079 | fewer than 3 |
| 8 | Matthew Arnold Close to A3Surrey | 26,811 | 14 |
| 9 | A3 to B374 Brooklands RdSurrey | 28,633 | 27 |
| 10 | B374 Brooklands Rd to A318 Oyster LaneSurrey | 26,874 | 15 |
| 11 | A318 Oyster Lane to A320Surrey | 22,525 | 77 |
| 12 | A320 to A3046Surrey | 17,361 | 14 |
Vehicles a day is the average daily flow in 2025. “Since 2019” compares the same count points. Collisions are those with the A245 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.
A245 traffic by vehicle type
Cars and taxis make up 82.7% of the vehicle miles on the A245. HGVs account for 1.7%.
Vehicle mix, 2025
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
HGV share of traffic
| Year | HGV share |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 3.1% |
| 2001 | 2.9% |
| 2002 | 2.6% |
| 2003 | 2.9% |
| 2004 | 2.8% |
| 2005 | 2.5% |
| 2006 | 2.5% |
| 2007 | 2.5% |
| 2008 | 2.5% |
| 2009 | 2.3% |
| 2010 | 2.3% |
| 2011 | 2.3% |
| 2012 | 2.4% |
| 2013 | 2.1% |
| 2014 | 2.2% |
| 2015 | 2.3% |
| 2016 | 2.4% |
| 2017 | 2.3% |
| 2018 | 2.0% |
| 2019 | 1.8% |
| 2020 | 2.1% |
| 2021 | 2.0% |
| 2022 | 1.9% |
| 2023 | 1.8% |
| 2024 | 1.6% |
| 2025 | 1.7% |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
A245 traffic trend
Traffic on the A245 came to 87 million vehicle miles in 2025. At the count points present in both years, it is up 2.5% on 2019, before the pandemic, and up 2.3% on 2015.
Vehicle miles a year
Like for like, traffic is down 1.1% on 2000.
| Year | Vehicle miles |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 87m |
| 2001 | 86m |
| 2002 | 91m |
| 2003 | 97m |
| 2004 | 94m |
| 2005 | 92m |
| 2006 | 97m |
| 2007 | 94m |
| 2008 | 92m |
| 2009 | 90m |
| 2010 | 86m |
| 2011 | 87m |
| 2012 | 82m |
| 2013 | 83m |
| 2014 | 85m |
| 2015 | 85m |
| 2016 | 87m |
| 2017 | 86m |
| 2018 | 85m |
| 2019 | 85m |
| 2020 | 65m |
| 2021 | 72m |
| 2022 | 82m |
| 2023 | 85m |
| 2024 | 86m |
| 2025 | 87m |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
Average daily flow
| Year | Vehicles a day |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 18,040 |
| 2001 | 17,935 |
| 2002 | 18,828 |
| 2003 | 20,056 |
| 2004 | 19,569 |
| 2005 | 19,151 |
| 2006 | 20,082 |
| 2007 | 19,346 |
| 2008 | 18,926 |
| 2009 | 18,592 |
| 2010 | 17,724 |
| 2011 | 17,979 |
| 2012 | 17,000 |
| 2013 | 17,277 |
| 2014 | 17,640 |
| 2015 | 17,522 |
| 2016 | 17,974 |
| 2017 | 17,720 |
| 2018 | 17,530 |
| 2019 | 17,493 |
| 2020 | 13,409 |
| 2021 | 14,747 |
| 2022 | 16,972 |
| 2023 | 17,416 |
| 2024 | 17,734 |
| 2025 | 17,929 |
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 13 count points were counted; DfT estimated the rest from earlier counts and local trends.
A245 collisions
Police recorded 229 collisions with the A245 as the first road from 2021 to 2025, 48 of them fatal or serious. That is 55.6 per 100 million vehicle miles, higher than the 31.5 for all A-roads in Great Britain. On average there were 3.4 a year for each mile of road.
Reported collisions by year
Up 24.3% from 2021 to 2025.
| Year | Slight | Fatal or serious |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 27 | 10 |
| 2022 | 33 | 8 |
| 2023 | 37 | 8 |
| 2024 | 49 | 11 |
| 2025 | 35 | 11 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Blundel Lane, Stoke D'Abernon to A307 Surrey · 31 collisions | 67.2 |
| Cleeve Rd, Leatherhead to Blundel Lane, Stoke D'Abernon Surrey · 20 collisions | 61.4 |
| A320 to A3046 Surrey · 14 collisions | 60.1 |
| A318 Oyster Lane to A320 Surrey · 77 collisions | 54.7 |
| B374 Brooklands Rd to A318 Oyster Lane Surrey · 15 collisions | 54.2 |
| A3 to B374 Brooklands Rd Surrey · 27 collisions | 32.4 |
Source:DfT STATS19,UK Motoring analysis 2021 to 2025 Updated
A further 36 collisions were recorded at junctions where the A245 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 A245
In route order. Each is the highway authority DfT files the count points under.
- Surrey
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 | 13 count points in 2025 | 15 September 2026 |
| Reported collisions | Road safety open data (STATS19) Department for Transport Derived statistics UK Motoring | 2021 to 2025 | 229 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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