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A4139 traffic and collisions

The A4139 is an A-road of 14.8 miles, in Pembrokeshire. This page covers its traffic at 9 DfT count points since 2000 and the collisions police recorded on it.

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9 count points in 2025
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  • Traffic in 2025 30m vehicle miles
  • Average daily traffic 5,508 vehicles a day, both directions
  • Busiest section 12,618 A4139 Bush St (Pembroke Dock) to A4139 Westgate Hill
  • HGV share 1.7% of vehicle miles
  • Traffic since 2019 −5.2% same count points
  • Collisions, 2021 to 2025 53 37.2 per 100m vehicle miles

How busy is the A4139?

On an average day in 2025, 5,508 vehicles passed each point on the A4139, counting both directions. The busiest section is A4139 Bush St (Pembroke Dock) to A4139 Westgate Hill (Pembrokeshire), with 12,618 a day; the quietest listed is A478 to A4218, with 3,290.

Busiest sections, 2025

A4139 Bush St (Pembroke Dock) to A4139 Westgate Hill carries 2.3 times the road’s average flow.

Sections of the A4139 with the highest average daily flow, 2025
Section Vehicles a day
A4139 Bush St (Pembroke Dock) to A4139 Westgate Hill Pembrokeshire · 1.1 mi · HGVs 1.7% 12,618
Water St roundabout to Melvillle Street Pembrokeshire · 0.6 mi · HGVs 5.0% 7,642
A4218 to A4075 Pembrokeshire · 10.7 mi · HGVs 1.4% 4,103
A478 to A4218 Pembrokeshire · 0.6 mi · HGVs 1.3% 3,290

Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated

Route

In Pembrokeshire · 14.8 miles

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

A4139 traffic and collisions by section

7 sections between junctions, in route order. Each is the average of its DfT count points, weighted by length. 2 short link roads and spurs (0.8 miles) count in the road’s totals but are not listed.

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Sections of the A4139 in route order, 2025 traffic
#
1A478 to A4218Pembrokeshire0.63,2901.3%−7.2%4
2A4218 to A4075Pembrokeshire10.74,1031.4%−6.8%1013.0
3A4075 to A4139 Northgate StPembrokeshire0.47,6231.4%−6.7%3
4A4139 Bush St (Pembroke Dock) to A4139 Westgate HillPembrokeshire1.112,6181.7%−6.6%2394.6
5A4139 split (Pembroke Dock) to A477Pembrokeshire0.211,8901.2%−3.8%0
6A477 to Water St roundaboutPembrokeshire0.411,2763.1%−7.3%4
7Water St roundabout to Melvillle StreetPembrokeshire0.67,6425.0%+5.9%5

Vehicles a day is the average daily flow in 2025. “Since 2019” compares the same count points. Collisions are those with the A4139 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.

A4139 traffic by vehicle type

Cars and taxis make up 81.0% of the vehicle miles on the A4139. HGVs account for 1.7%, rising to 5.0% on Water St roundabout to Melvillle Street.

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 A4139, by year
Year HGV share
2000 1.7%
2001 1.7%
2002 1.7%
2003 2.1%
2004 1.8%
2005 1.9%
2006 1.6%
2007 1.8%
2008 1.6%
2009 1.5%
2010 1.5%
2011 1.5%
2012 1.6%
2013 1.5%
2014 1.5%
2015 1.6%
2016 1.7%
2017 1.7%
2018 1.6%
2019 1.6%
2020 2.0%
2021 1.9%
2022 1.8%
2023 1.8%
2024 1.8%
2025 1.7%

Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated

A4139 traffic trend

Traffic on the A4139 came to 29.8 million vehicle miles in 2025. At the count points present in both years, it is down 5.2% on 2019, before the pandemic, and down 8.5% on 2015.

Vehicle miles a year

Like for like, traffic is down 13.8% on 2000.

Vehicle miles on the A4139 each year, the whole road as it was that year
Year Vehicle miles
2000 36m
2001 33m
2002 38m
2003 34m
2004 35m
2005 34m
2006 35m
2007 33m
2008 33m
2009 32m
2010 32m
2011 32m
2012 31m
2013 32m
2014 32m
2015 33m
2016 32m
2017 32m
2018 31m
2019 31m
2020 24m
2021 26m
2022 28m
2023 29m
2024 29m
2025 30m

Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated

Average daily flow

Average daily flow along the A4139, weighted by link length, by year
Year Vehicles a day
2000 6,147
2001 5,669
2002 6,430
2003 5,756
2004 6,260
2005 6,202
2006 6,353
2007 6,039
2008 5,906
2009 5,842
2010 5,737
2011 5,742
2012 5,697
2013 5,744
2014 5,835
2015 5,922
2016 5,720
2017 5,755
2018 5,706
2019 5,807
2020 4,349
2021 4,837
2022 5,219
2023 5,372
2024 5,439
2025 5,508

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

A4139 collisions

Police recorded 53 collisions with the A4139 as the first road from 2021 to 2025, 18 of them fatal or serious. That is 37.2 per 100 million vehicle miles, higher than the 31.5 for all A-roads in Great Britain. On average there were 0.7 a year for each mile of road.

Reported collisions by year

Up 14.3% from 2021 to 2025.

Police-reported collisions on the A4139 by year
Year Collisions
2021 7
2022 11
2023 13
2024 14
2025 8

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 A4139, 2021 to 2025
Section Per 100m vehicle miles
A4139 Bush St (Pembroke Dock) to A4139 Westgate Hill Pembrokeshire · 23 collisions 94.6
A4218 to A4075 Pembrokeshire · 10 collisions 13.0

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

A further 5 collisions were recorded at junctions where the A4139 was the second road; they are not in the figures above. Fatal or serious uses DfT’s adjusted serious figures. 92.5% of the collisions could be placed on a section. How we count collisions

Council areas on the A4139

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

  • Pembrokeshire

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 9 count points in 2025 15 September 2026
Reported collisions Road safety open data (STATS19) Department for Transport
Derived statistics UK Motoring
2021 to 2025 53 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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