Trunk A-road
A282 traffic and collisions
The A282 is a trunk A-road of 7.4 miles, from Thurrock to Kent. This page covers its traffic at 7 DfT count points since 2000 and the collisions police recorded on it.
- Traffic in 2025 289m vehicle miles
- Average daily traffic 107,017 vehicles a day, both directions
- Busiest section 132,850 A206 to A296 / A225
- HGV share 14.6% of vehicle miles
- Traffic since 2019 +0.1% same count points
- Collisions, 2021 to 2025 242 17.5 per 100m vehicle miles
How busy is the A282?
On an average day in 2025, 107,017 vehicles passed each point on the A282, counting both directions. The busiest section is A206 to A296 / A225 (Kent), with 132,850 a day; the quietest listed is At M25 J2, with 38,893.
Busiest sections, 2025
A206 to A296 / A225 carries 1.2 times the road’s average flow.
| Section | Vehicles a day |
|---|---|
| A206 to A296 / A225 Kent · 1.3 mi · HGVs 13.5% | 132,850 |
| M25 to A206 Thurrock, Kent · 4.0 mi · HGVs 14.9% | 122,329 |
| At M25 J2 Kent · 0.8 mi · HGVs 17.8% | 38,893 |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
Route
Thurrock to Kent · 7.4 miles
A282 traffic and collisions by section
5 sections between junctions, in route order. Each is the average of its DfT count points, weighted by length. 1 short link roads and spurs (0.5 miles) count in the road’s totals but are not listed.
Sections Tap a column heading to sort
| # | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A1306 to A13(T)Thurrock | 79,968 | 4 |
| 2 | M25 to A206Thurrock, Kent | 122,329 | 118 |
| 3 | A206 to A296 / A225Kent | 132,850 | 77 |
| 4 | M25 1B to A296Kent | 133,609 | 18 |
| 5 | At M25 J2Kent | 38,893 | 3 |
Vehicles a day is the average daily flow in 2025. “Since 2019” compares the same count points. Collisions are those with the A282 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.
A282 traffic by vehicle type
Cars and taxis make up 62.6% of the vehicle miles on the A282. HGVs account for 14.6%, rising to 17.8% on At M25 J2.
Vehicle mix, 2025
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
HGV share of traffic
| Year | HGV share |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 14.8% |
| 2001 | 14.2% |
| 2002 | 14.2% |
| 2003 | 15.4% |
| 2004 | 13.7% |
| 2005 | 15.0% |
| 2006 | 13.8% |
| 2007 | 13.9% |
| 2008 | 13.8% |
| 2009 | 13.2% |
| 2010 | 15.2% |
| 2011 | 15.4% |
| 2012 | 14.9% |
| 2013 | 15.6% |
| 2014 | 16.4% |
| 2015 | 15.7% |
| 2016 | 15.9% |
| 2017 | 14.9% |
| 2018 | 15.0% |
| 2019 | 15.0% |
| 2020 | 18.1% |
| 2021 | 16.6% |
| 2022 | 16.0% |
| 2023 | 15.1% |
| 2024 | 15.0% |
| 2025 | 14.6% |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
A282 traffic trend
Traffic on the A282 came to 289 million vehicle miles in 2025. At the count points present in both years, it is about the same as in 2019, before the pandemic, and up 4.3% on 2015.
Vehicle miles a year
Like for like, traffic is up 16.4% on 2000.
| Year | Vehicle miles |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 195m |
| 2001 | 205m |
| 2002 | 207m |
| 2003 | 206m |
| 2004 | 218m |
| 2005 | 215m |
| 2006 | 205m |
| 2007 | 209m |
| 2008 | 208m |
| 2009 | 210m |
| 2010 | 191m |
| 2011 | 192m |
| 2012 | 193m |
| 2013 | 187m |
| 2014 | 179m |
| 2015 | 209m |
| 2016 | 199m |
| 2017 | 258m |
| 2018 | 277m |
| 2019 | 277m |
| 2020 | 209m |
| 2021 | 242m |
| 2022 | 282m |
| 2023 | 282m |
| 2024 | 287m |
| 2025 | 289m |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
Average daily flow
| Year | Vehicles a day |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 106,944 |
| 2001 | 112,077 |
| 2002 | 113,442 |
| 2003 | 112,725 |
| 2004 | 119,416 |
| 2005 | 117,542 |
| 2006 | 112,204 |
| 2007 | 114,519 |
| 2008 | 113,784 |
| 2009 | 114,828 |
| 2010 | 104,397 |
| 2011 | 104,938 |
| 2012 | 105,763 |
| 2013 | 102,260 |
| 2014 | 98,252 |
| 2015 | 114,466 |
| 2016 | 108,935 |
| 2017 | 113,866 |
| 2018 | 114,954 |
| 2019 | 115,151 |
| 2020 | 86,711 |
| 2021 | 100,633 |
| 2022 | 117,036 |
| 2023 | 116,881 |
| 2024 | 106,303 |
| 2025 | 107,017 |
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 (89.2% of today’s road for 2019). In 2025, 1 of the 7 count points were counted; DfT estimated the rest from earlier counts and local trends.
A282 collisions
Police recorded 242 collisions with the A282 as the first road from 2021 to 2025, fewer than 3 of them fatal or serious. That is 17.5 per 100 million vehicle miles, lower than the 31.5 for all A-roads in Great Britain. On average there were 6.5 a year for each mile of road.
Reported collisions by year
Down 4.0% from 2021 to 2025.
| Year | Collisions |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 50 |
| 2022 | 43 |
| 2023 | 52 |
| 2024 | 49 |
| 2025 | 48 |
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 |
|---|---|
| A206 to A296 / A225 Kent · 77 collisions | 26.0 |
| M25 to A206 Thurrock, Kent · 118 collisions | 13.3 |
Source:DfT STATS19,UK Motoring analysis 2021 to 2025 Updated
A further 38 collisions were recorded at junctions where the A282 was the second road; they are not in the figures above. Fatal or serious uses DfT’s adjusted serious figures. 90.9% of the collisions could be placed on a section. How we count collisions
Council areas on the A282
In route order. Each is the highway authority DfT files the count points under.
- Thurrock
- Kent
Planned closures on the A282 in England
National Highways has 20 planned closures on the A282 between 16 September 2026 and 30 September 2026, all of them starting in that period. 16 close a carriageway rather than a lane or slip road, and 20 start between 7pm and 6am.
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Carriageway M25 Clockwise Jct 30 carriageway closure between entry and exit slip
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Carriageway A282 Northbound Dartford Crossing West Tunnel closure
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Carriageway A282 Northbound Dartford Crossing West Tunnel closure
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Lane or slip A282 Northbound Jct 1b entry slip road lane 1 closure
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Carriageway A282 Southbound Jct 1A to Jct 2 carriageway closure
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Carriageway A282 Northbound Dartford Crossing East Tunnel closure No access over Dartford Crossing for vehicles over 4.8m
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Carriageway M25 Clockwise Jct 31 entry slip road closure
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Carriageway A282 Northbound Dartford Crossing East Tunnel closure No access over Dartford Crossing for vehicles over 4.8m
12 more planned closures in this period are not shown.
Planned closures only: National Highways can cancel or change them, and closures caused by incidents are not shown. Council roads in England are not covered. Roadworks and closures across the UK
Source:National Highways 2026-09-16 to 2026-09-30 Updated
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 | 7 count points in 2025 | 15 September 2026 |
| Reported collisions | Road safety open data (STATS19) Department for Transport Derived statistics UK Motoring | 2021 to 2025 | 242 reported collisions | 15 September 2026 |
| Planned closures | Transport Data Feeds (DATEX II) National Highways | 2026-09-16 to 2026-09-30 | 2,304 planned closure schemes | 16 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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