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A4135 traffic and collisions

The A4135 is an A-road of 12.8 miles, in Gloucestershire. This page covers its traffic at 5 DfT count points since 2000 and the collisions police recorded on it.

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5 count points in 2025
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  • Traffic in 2025 34m vehicle miles
  • Average daily traffic 7,215 vehicles a day, both directions
  • Busiest section 13,241 Everside Lane to Byron Rd
  • HGV share 2.2% of vehicle miles
  • Traffic since 2019 −4.0% same count points
  • Collisions, 2021 to 2025 51 32.0 per 100m vehicle miles

How busy is the A4135?

On an average day in 2025, 7,215 vehicles passed each point on the A4135, counting both directions. The busiest section is Everside Lane to Byron Rd (Gloucestershire), with 13,241 a day; the quietest listed is Byron Rd, Dursley to B4058, with 3,747.

Busiest sections, 2025

Everside Lane to Byron Rd carries 1.8 times the road’s average flow.

Sections of the A4135 with the highest average daily flow, 2025
Section Vehicles a day
Everside Lane to Byron Rd Gloucestershire · 2.7 mi · HGVs 0.7% 13,241
A38 to Everside Lane, Dursley Gloucestershire · 1.4 mi · HGVs 2.2% 10,594
A433 to A46 Gloucestershire · 3.5 mi · HGVs 4.6% 5,609
A46 to A419 Gloucestershire · 3.1 mi · HGVs 3.2% 4,605
Byron Rd, Dursley to B4058 Gloucestershire · 2.1 mi · HGVs 1.7% 3,747

Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated

Route

In Gloucestershire · 12.8 miles

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

A4135 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 A4135 in route order, 2025 traffic
#
1A433 to A46Gloucestershire3.55,6094.6%−6.6%6
2A46 to A419Gloucestershire3.14,6053.2%−6.3%1040.0
3Byron Rd, Dursley to B4058Gloucestershire2.13,7471.7%−6.6%1072.5
4Everside Lane to Byron RdGloucestershire2.713,2410.7%+0.3%2033.2
5A38 to Everside Lane, DursleyGloucestershire1.410,5942.2%−6.6%4

Vehicles a day is the average daily flow in 2025. “Since 2019” compares the same count points. Collisions are those with the A4135 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.

A4135 traffic by vehicle type

Cars and taxis make up 81.5% of the vehicle miles on the A4135. HGVs account for 2.2%, rising to 4.6% on A433 to A46.

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 A4135, by year
Year HGV share
2000 3.3%
2001 3.5%
2002 3.8%
2003 3.6%
2004 3.8%
2005 3.9%
2006 3.4%
2007 3.5%
2008 3.7%
2009 3.5%
2010 3.4%
2011 3.5%
2012 3.5%
2013 3.6%
2014 3.5%
2015 3.5%
2016 3.6%
2017 3.4%
2018 2.4%
2019 2.3%
2020 2.7%
2021 2.6%
2022 2.5%
2023 2.4%
2024 2.4%
2025 2.2%

Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated

A4135 traffic trend

Traffic on the A4135 came to 33.7 million vehicle miles in 2025. At the count points present in both years, it is down 4.0% on 2019, before the pandemic, and down 5.2% on 2015.

Vehicle miles a year

Like for like, traffic is up 35.1% on 2000.

Vehicle miles on the A4135 each year, the whole road as it was that year
Year Vehicle miles
2000 25m
2001 28m
2002 28m
2003 28m
2004 29m
2005 29m
2006 33m
2007 33m
2008 34m
2009 34m
2010 33m
2011 34m
2012 34m
2013 34m
2014 35m
2015 36m
2016 37m
2017 37m
2018 35m
2019 35m
2020 27m
2021 29m
2022 32m
2023 32m
2024 33m
2025 34m

Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated

Average daily flow

Average daily flow along the A4135, weighted by link length, by year
Year Vehicles a day
2000 5,341
2001 5,904
2002 5,976
2003 6,022
2004 6,208
2005 6,109
2006 7,052
2007 7,084
2008 7,189
2009 7,202
2010 7,137
2011 7,218
2012 7,198
2013 7,231
2014 7,394
2015 7,612
2016 7,802
2017 7,869
2018 7,450
2019 7,515
2020 5,714
2021 6,287
2022 6,761
2023 6,897
2024 6,990
2025 7,215

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 5 count points were counted; DfT estimated the rest from earlier counts and local trends.

A4135 collisions

Police recorded 51 collisions with the A4135 as the first road from 2021 to 2025, 13 of them fatal or serious. That is 32.0 per 100 million vehicle miles, close to the 31.5 for all A-roads in Great Britain. On average there were 0.8 a year for each mile of road.

Reported collisions by year

Up 11.1% from 2021 to 2025.

Police-reported collisions on the A4135 by year
Year Collisions
2021 9
2022 12
2023 9
2024 11
2025 10

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 A4135, 2021 to 2025
Section Per 100m vehicle miles
Byron Rd, Dursley to B4058 Gloucestershire · 10 collisions 72.5
A46 to A419 Gloucestershire · 10 collisions 40.0
Everside Lane to Byron Rd Gloucestershire · 20 collisions 33.2

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

A further 6 collisions were recorded at junctions where the A4135 was the second road; they are not in the figures above. Fatal or serious uses DfT’s adjusted serious figures. 98.0% of the collisions could be placed on a section. How we count collisions

Council areas on the A4135

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

  • Gloucestershire

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 5 count points in 2025 15 September 2026
Reported collisions Road safety open data (STATS19) Department for Transport
Derived statistics UK Motoring
2021 to 2025 51 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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