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A4127 traffic and collisions

The A4127 is an A-road of 6.0 miles, from Brent to Ealing. This page covers its traffic at 7 DfT count points since 2000 and the collisions police recorded on it.

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7 count points in 2025
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  • Traffic in 2025 45m vehicle miles
  • Average daily traffic 20,540 vehicles a day, both directions
  • Busiest section 26,555 A4020 to A3005
  • HGV share 3.8% of vehicle miles
  • Traffic since 2019 −9.0% same count points
  • Collisions, 2021 to 2025 224 99.2 per 100m vehicle miles

How busy is the A4127?

On an average day in 2025, 20,540 vehicles passed each point on the A4127, counting both directions. The busiest section is A4020 to A3005 (Ealing), with 26,555 a day; the quietest listed is A404 to A4005 Harrow Rd, with 14,558.

Busiest sections, 2025

A4020 to A3005 carries 1.3 times the road’s average flow.

Sections of the A4127 with the highest average daily flow, 2025
Section Vehicles a day
A4020 to A3005 Ealing · 1.4 mi · HGVs 1.6% 26,555
A4090 to A40(T) Ealing · 1.4 mi · HGVs 7.1% 22,600
A4005 to A4090 Harrow, Ealing · 0.6 mi · HGVs 2.7% 20,713
A40(T) to A4020 Ealing · 2.0 mi · HGVs 3.9% 16,631
A404 to A4005 Harrow Rd Brent, Harrow · 0.6 mi · HGVs 2.9% 14,558

Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated

Route

Brent to Ealing · 6.0 miles

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

A4127 traffic and collisions by section

5 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 A4127 in route order, 2025 traffic
#
1A404 to A4005 Harrow RdBrent, Harrow0.614,5582.9%9
2A4005 to A4090Harrow, Ealing0.620,7132.7%+17.2%29127.8
3A4090 to A40(T)Ealing1.422,6007.1%−8.7%5599.0
4A40(T) to A4020Ealing2.016,6313.9%−13.9%98160.8
5A4020 to A3005Ealing1.426,5551.6%−10.6%3346.8

Vehicles a day is the average daily flow in 2025. “Since 2019” compares the same count points. Collisions are those with the A4127 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.

A4127 traffic by vehicle type

Cars and taxis make up 78.7% of the vehicle miles on the A4127. HGVs account for 3.8%, rising to 7.1% on A4090 to A40(T).

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 A4127, by year
Year HGV share
2000 3.3%
2001 2.8%
2002 2.5%
2003 2.5%
2004 2.8%
2005 2.9%
2006 2.8%
2007 4.0%
2008 3.8%
2009 3.6%
2010 3.6%
2011 4.9%
2012 5.2%
2013 5.3%
2014 5.1%
2015 5.0%
2016 4.0%
2017 3.4%
2018 3.3%
2019 3.3%
2020 4.6%
2021 4.6%
2022 5.0%
2023 4.9%
2024 4.9%
2025 3.8%

Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated

A4127 traffic trend

Traffic on the A4127 came to 45 million vehicle miles in 2025. At the count points present in both years, it is down 9.0% on 2019, before the pandemic, and down 9.9% on 2015.

Vehicle miles a year

Like for like, traffic is down 18.8% on 2000.

Vehicle miles on the A4127 each year, the whole road as it was that year
Year Vehicle miles
2000 54m
2001 55m
2002 55m
2003 54m
2004 54m
2005 54m
2006 56m
2007 50m
2008 47m
2009 45m
2010 44m
2011 46m
2012 48m
2013 48m
2014 48m
2015 48m
2016 46m
2017 49m
2018 50m
2019 50m
2020 39m
2021 45m
2022 46m
2023 46m
2024 45m
2025 45m

Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated

Average daily flow

Average daily flow along the A4127, weighted by link length, by year
Year Vehicles a day
2000 25,375
2001 26,032
2002 25,851
2003 25,404
2004 25,563
2005 25,518
2006 26,222
2007 23,507
2008 22,380
2009 21,337
2010 20,819
2011 21,862
2012 22,644
2013 22,666
2014 22,738
2015 22,743
2016 21,866
2017 22,905
2018 22,617
2019 22,674
2020 17,670
2021 20,339
2022 20,780
2023 20,812
2024 20,627
2025 20,540

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, 3 of the 7 count points were counted; DfT estimated the rest from earlier counts and local trends.

A4127 collisions

Police recorded 224 collisions with the A4127 as the first road from 2021 to 2025, 33 of them fatal or serious, including 4 fatal. That is 99.2 per 100 million vehicle miles, higher than the 31.5 for all A-roads in Great Britain. On average there were 7.5 a year for each mile of road.

Reported collisions by year

Down 37.9% from 2021 to 2025.

Police-reported collisions on the A4127 by year: fatal or serious, and slight
Year SlightFatal or serious
2021 579
2022 417
2023 315
2024 285
2025 347

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 A4127, 2021 to 2025
Section Per 100m vehicle miles
A40(T) to A4020 Ealing · 98 collisions 160.8
A4005 to A4090 Harrow, Ealing · 29 collisions 127.8
A4090 to A40(T) Ealing · 55 collisions 99.0
A4020 to A3005 Ealing · 33 collisions 46.8

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

A further 55 collisions were recorded at junctions where the A4127 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 A4127

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

  • Brent
  • Harrow
  • Ealing

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 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 224 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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