A-road
A372 traffic and collisions
The A372 is an A-road of 19.5 miles, in Somerset. This page covers its traffic at 7 DfT count points since 2000 and the collisions police recorded on it.
- Traffic in 2025 39m vehicle miles
- Average daily traffic 5,431 vehicles a day, both directions
- Busiest section 13,149 Bower Lane to A38
- HGV share 3.5% of vehicle miles
- Traffic since 2019 −6.2% same count points
- Collisions, 2021 to 2025 60 32.2 per 100m vehicle miles
How busy is the A372?
On an average day in 2025, 5,431 vehicles passed each point on the A372, counting both directions. The busiest section is Bower Lane to A38 (Somerset), with 13,149 a day; the quietest listed is B3165 to B3153, with 3,760.
Busiest sections, 2025
Bower Lane to A38 carries 2.4 times the road’s average flow.
| Section | Vehicles a day |
|---|---|
| Bower Lane to A38 Somerset · 1.1 mi · HGVs 1.4% | 13,149 |
| A303 to B3151 Somerset · 1.2 mi · HGVs 8.4% | 6,245 |
| A361 to Bower Lane Somerset · 5.8 mi · HGVs 3.4% | 5,828 |
| B3151 to B3165 Somerset · 2.8 mi · HGVs 3.6% | 5,505 |
| A378 to A361 Somerset · 4.6 mi · HGVs 3.7% | 3,940 |
| B3165 to B3153 Somerset · 3.7 mi · HGVs 2.8% | 3,760 |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
Route
In Somerset · 19.5 miles
A372 traffic and collisions by section
7 sections between junctions, in route order. Each is the average of its DfT count points, weighted by length.
Sections Tap a column heading to sort
| # | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A303 to B3151Somerset | 6,245 | 7 |
| 2 | B3151 to B3165Somerset | 5,505 | 8 |
| 3 | B3165 to B3153Somerset | 3,760 | 4 |
| 4 | B3153 to A378Somerset | 8,985 | 4 |
| 5 | A378 to A361Somerset | 3,940 | 6 |
| 6 | A361 to Bower LaneSomerset | 5,828 | 22 |
| 7 | Bower Lane to A38Somerset | 13,149 | 9 |
Vehicles a day is the average daily flow in 2025. “Since 2019” compares the same count points. Collisions are those with the A372 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.
A372 traffic by vehicle type
Cars and taxis make up 75.0% of the vehicle miles on the A372. HGVs account for 3.5%, rising to 8.4% on A303 to B3151.
Vehicle mix, 2025
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
HGV share of traffic
| Year | HGV share |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 4.0% |
| 2001 | 3.9% |
| 2002 | 4.3% |
| 2003 | 4.0% |
| 2004 | 3.8% |
| 2005 | 3.9% |
| 2006 | 4.2% |
| 2007 | 4.3% |
| 2008 | 4.9% |
| 2009 | 4.6% |
| 2010 | 4.8% |
| 2011 | 4.5% |
| 2012 | 4.5% |
| 2013 | 4.1% |
| 2014 | 4.0% |
| 2015 | 4.1% |
| 2016 | 3.8% |
| 2017 | 3.9% |
| 2018 | 3.5% |
| 2019 | 3.3% |
| 2020 | 3.9% |
| 2021 | 3.8% |
| 2022 | 3.6% |
| 2023 | 3.5% |
| 2024 | 3.5% |
| 2025 | 3.5% |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
A372 traffic trend
Traffic on the A372 came to 38.7 million vehicle miles in 2025. At the count points present in both years, it is down 6.2% on 2019, before the pandemic, and down 9.3% on 2015.
Vehicle miles a year
Like for like, traffic is about the same as in 2000.
| Year | Vehicle miles |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 39m |
| 2001 | 39m |
| 2002 | 39m |
| 2003 | 41m |
| 2004 | 42m |
| 2005 | 42m |
| 2006 | 41m |
| 2007 | 42m |
| 2008 | 41m |
| 2009 | 40m |
| 2010 | 40m |
| 2011 | 39m |
| 2012 | 39m |
| 2013 | 40m |
| 2014 | 41m |
| 2015 | 43m |
| 2016 | 43m |
| 2017 | 43m |
| 2018 | 40m |
| 2019 | 41m |
| 2020 | 32m |
| 2021 | 35m |
| 2022 | 37m |
| 2023 | 38m |
| 2024 | 38m |
| 2025 | 39m |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
Average daily flow
| Year | Vehicles a day |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 5,414 |
| 2001 | 5,450 |
| 2002 | 5,481 |
| 2003 | 5,689 |
| 2004 | 5,921 |
| 2005 | 5,887 |
| 2006 | 5,810 |
| 2007 | 5,835 |
| 2008 | 5,701 |
| 2009 | 5,666 |
| 2010 | 5,583 |
| 2011 | 5,478 |
| 2012 | 5,461 |
| 2013 | 5,653 |
| 2014 | 5,782 |
| 2015 | 5,987 |
| 2016 | 5,995 |
| 2017 | 6,055 |
| 2018 | 5,658 |
| 2019 | 5,792 |
| 2020 | 4,420 |
| 2021 | 4,851 |
| 2022 | 5,233 |
| 2023 | 5,339 |
| 2024 | 5,369 |
| 2025 | 5,431 |
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 7 count points were counted; DfT estimated the rest from earlier counts and local trends.
A372 collisions
Police recorded 60 collisions with the A372 as the first road from 2021 to 2025, 26 of them fatal or serious. That is 32.2 per 100 million vehicle miles, close to the 31.5 for all A-roads in Great Britain. On average there were 0.6 a year for each mile of road.
Reported collisions by year
Down 10.0% from 2021 to 2025.
| Year | Slight | Fatal or serious |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | 5 |
| 2022 | 9 | 7 |
| 2023 | 4 | 4 |
| 2024 | 11 | 6 |
| 2025 | 6 | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|
| A361 to Bower Lane Somerset · 22 collisions | 37.2 |
Source:DfT STATS19,UK Motoring analysis 2021 to 2025 Updated
A further 13 collisions were recorded at junctions where the A372 was the second road; they are not in the figures above. Fatal or serious uses DfT’s adjusted serious figures. 100.0% of the collisions could be placed on a section. How we count collisions
Council areas on the A372
In route order. Each is the highway authority DfT files the count points under.
- Somerset
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 | 60 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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