A-road

A322 traffic and collisions

The A322 is an A-road of 17.4 miles, from Surrey to Bracknell Forest. This page covers its traffic at 19 DfT count points since 2000 and the collisions police recorded on it.

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19 count points in 2025
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  • Traffic in 2025 183m vehicle miles
  • Average daily traffic 28,735 vehicles a day, both directions
  • Busiest section 58,507 M3 to A322 Grove End
  • HGV share 3.3% of vehicle miles
  • Traffic since 2019 −5.4% same count points
  • Collisions, 2021 to 2025 307 34.8 per 100m vehicle miles

How busy is the A322?

On an average day in 2025, 28,735 vehicles passed each point on the A322, counting both directions. The busiest section is M3 to A322 Grove End (Surrey), with 58,507 a day; the quietest listed is B380 to A324, with 11,574.

Busiest sections, 2025

M3 to A322 Grove End carries 2.0 times the road’s average flow.

Sections of the A322 with the highest average daily flow, 2025
Section Vehicles a day
M3 to A322 Grove End Surrey · 0.9 mi · HGVs 4.6% 58,507
A322 spur to A332 Surrey, Bracknell Forest · 0.8 mi · HGVs 3.7% 57,949
A332 to B3430 New Forest Ride Bracknell Forest · 1.9 mi · HGVs 3.8% 46,567
B3430 New Forest Ride to A3095 Bracknell Forest · 1.9 mi · HGVs 4.0% 38,522
A3095 to A329/A3095 Bracknell Forest · 0.7 mi · HGVs 6.0% 35,068
A319 to M3 Surrey · 1.7 mi · HGVs 2.4% 26,859
A324 to A319 Surrey · 3.0 mi · HGVs 2.7% 18,031
Cumberland Avenue, Guildford to B380 Surrey · 2.1 mi · HGVs 1.4% 17,933
A246 to A25 Surrey · 0.6 mi · HGVs 2.4% 17,102
A323 to Cumberland Avenue, Guildford Surrey · 1.1 mi · HGVs 1.4% 15,558

Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated

Route

Surrey to Bracknell Forest · 17.4 miles

Surrey Bracknell Forest
Schematic route: each line joins the junctions at the ends of a DfT count point link.

A322 traffic and collisions by section

15 sections between junctions, in route order. Each is the average of its DfT count points, weighted by length. 3 short link roads and spurs (0.6 miles) count in the road’s totals but are not listed.

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Sections of the A322 in route order, 2025 traffic
#
1A31/A281 to A246Surrey0.327,9321.9%−12.4%26
2A246 to A25Surrey0.617,1022.4%−5.6%30165.4
3A3 to A323Surrey0.130,9051.3%+3.3%5
4A323 to Cumberland Avenue, GuildfordSurrey1.115,5581.4%−3.1%1859.5
5Cumberland Avenue, Guildford to B380Surrey2.117,9331.4%−5.1%1928.6
6B380 to A324Surrey1.411,5742.1%+3.2%1242.5
7A324 to A319Surrey3.018,0312.7%−5.3%4446.0
8A319 to M3Surrey1.726,8592.4%−0.7%3138.1
9M3 to A322 Grove EndSurrey0.958,5074.6%−2.6%2324.2
10A322 Grove End to A322 spurSurrey0.155,6993.7%−8.8%0
11At A322 spurSurrey0.255,6993.7%−8.8%7
12A322 spur to A332Surrey, Bracknell Forest0.857,9493.7%−6.8%1315.0
13A332 to B3430 New Forest RideBracknell Forest1.946,5673.8%−9.4%138.0
14B3430 New Forest Ride to A3095Bracknell Forest1.938,5224.0%36134.8
15A3095 to A329/A3095Bracknell Forest0.735,0686.0%6

Vehicles a day is the average daily flow in 2025. “Since 2019” compares the same count points. Collisions are those with the A322 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.

A322 traffic by vehicle type

Cars and taxis make up 80.5% of the vehicle miles on the A322. HGVs account for 3.3%, rising to 6.0% on A3095 to A329/A3095.

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 A322, by year
Year HGV share
2000 4.1%
2001 4.0%
2002 4.0%
2003 4.3%
2004 4.3%
2005 4.3%
2006 4.1%
2007 3.9%
2008 3.7%
2009 3.6%
2010 3.9%
2011 3.3%
2012 3.2%
2013 3.1%
2014 3.4%
2015 3.6%
2016 3.4%
2017 3.4%
2018 3.6%
2019 3.7%
2020 4.8%
2021 4.8%
2022 4.1%
2023 3.8%
2024 3.3%
2025 3.3%

Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated

A322 traffic trend

Traffic on the A322 came to 183 million vehicle miles in 2025. At the count points present in both years, it is down 5.4% on 2019, before the pandemic, and down 3.2% on 2015.

Vehicle miles a year

Like for like, traffic is down 5.6% on 2000.

Vehicle miles on the A322 each year, the whole road as it was that year
Year Vehicle miles
2000 179m
2001 183m
2002 178m
2003 182m
2004 181m
2005 179m
2006 179m
2007 180m
2008 175m
2009 172m
2010 169m
2011 169m
2012 172m
2013 169m
2014 171m
2015 172m
2016 177m
2017 175m
2018 180m
2019 185m
2020 139m
2021 158m
2022 181m
2023 182m
2024 178m
2025 183m

Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated

Average daily flow

Average daily flow along the A322, weighted by link length, by year
Year Vehicles a day
2000 29,721
2001 30,390
2002 29,588
2003 30,213
2004 30,120
2005 29,736
2006 29,689
2007 29,850
2008 29,093
2009 28,631
2010 28,039
2011 28,039
2012 28,521
2013 28,122
2014 28,363
2015 28,526
2016 29,310
2017 29,025
2018 28,833
2019 29,674
2020 22,229
2021 25,373
2022 28,978
2023 29,210
2024 28,442
2025 28,735

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 (85.1% of today’s road for 2019). In 2025, 3 of the 19 count points were counted; DfT estimated the rest from earlier counts and local trends.

A322 collisions

Police recorded 307 collisions with the A322 as the first road from 2021 to 2025, 65 of them fatal or serious, including 6 fatal. That is 34.8 per 100 million vehicle miles, higher than the 31.5 for all A-roads in Great Britain. On average there were 3.5 a year for each mile of road.

Reported collisions by year

Down 26.2% from 2021 to 2025.

Police-reported collisions on the A322 by year: fatal or serious, and slight
Year SlightFatal or serious
2021 5114
2022 6511
2023 4812
2024 4810
2025 3117

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 A322, 2021 to 2025
Section Per 100m vehicle miles
A246 to A25 Surrey · 30 collisions 165.4
B3430 New Forest Ride to A3095 Bracknell Forest · 36 collisions 134.8
A323 to Cumberland Avenue, Guildford Surrey · 18 collisions 59.5
A324 to A319 Surrey · 44 collisions 46.0
B380 to A324 Surrey · 12 collisions 42.5
A319 to M3 Surrey · 31 collisions 38.1
Cumberland Avenue, Guildford to B380 Surrey · 19 collisions 28.6
M3 to A322 Grove End Surrey · 23 collisions 24.2

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

A further 46 collisions were recorded at junctions where the A322 was the second road; they are not in the figures above. Fatal or serious uses DfT’s adjusted serious figures. 92.2% of the collisions could be placed on a section. How we count collisions

Council areas on the A322

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

  • Surrey
  • Bracknell Forest

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 19 count points in 2025 15 September 2026
Reported collisions Road safety open data (STATS19) Department for Transport
Derived statistics UK Motoring
2021 to 2025 307 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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