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A4200 traffic and collisions

The A4200 is an A-road of 2.2 miles, from Westminster to Camden. This page covers its traffic at 6 DfT count points since 2000 and the collisions police recorded on it.

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6 count points in 2025
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  • Traffic in 2025 13m vehicle miles
  • Average daily traffic 16,610 vehicles a day, both directions
  • Busiest section 21,232 A40 to A501
  • HGV share 3.4% of vehicle miles
  • Traffic since 2019 +9.7% same count points
  • Collisions, 2021 to 2025 165 239.9 per 100m vehicle miles

How busy is the A4200?

On an average day in 2025, 16,610 vehicles passed each point on the A4200, counting both directions. The busiest section is A40 to A501 (Camden), with 21,232 a day; the quietest listed is A501 to A400, with 9,650.

Busiest sections, 2025

A40 to A501 carries 1.3 times the road’s average flow.

Sections of the A4200 with the highest average daily flow, 2025
Section Vehicles a day
A40 to A501 Camden · 1.1 mi · HGVs 3.9% 21,232
A501 to A400 Camden · 0.5 mi · HGVs 2.4% 9,650

Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated

Route

Westminster to Camden · 2.2 miles

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

A4200 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 A4200 in route order, 2025 traffic
#
1A4 to A40Westminster, Camden0.317,5672.9%−35.2%40
2At A40Camden0.117,7452.4%−22.3%22
3A40 to A501Camden1.121,2323.9%+46.3%70165.3
4A501 to A400Camden0.59,6502.4%−11.3%25285.9
5A400 to Hampstead RdCamden0.26,5812.4%−10.8%8

Vehicles a day is the average daily flow in 2025. “Since 2019” compares the same count points. Collisions are those with the A4200 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.

A4200 traffic by vehicle type

Cars and taxis make up 60.9% of the vehicle miles on the A4200. HGVs account for 3.4%.

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 A4200, by year
Year HGV share
2000 2.4%
2001 2.6%
2002 2.5%
2003 2.2%
2004 2.5%
2005 2.8%
2006 3.1%
2007 3.0%
2008 3.2%
2009 3.4%
2010 3.8%
2011 3.8%
2012 5.1%
2013 5.3%
2014 4.8%
2015 4.6%
2016 4.7%
2017 4.4%
2018 4.4%
2019 4.3%
2020 3.5%
2021 3.5%
2022 3.5%
2023 3.4%
2024 3.4%
2025 3.4%

Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated

A4200 traffic trend

Traffic on the A4200 came to 13.3 million vehicle miles in 2025. At the count points present in both years, it is up 9.7% on 2019, before the pandemic, and down 30.4% on 2015.

Vehicle miles a year

Like for like, traffic is down 46.3% on 2000.

Vehicle miles on the A4200 each year, the whole road as it was that year
Year Vehicle miles
2000 15m
2001 14m
2002 14m
2003 13m
2004 12m
2005 13m
2006 13m
2007 14m
2008 14m
2009 14m
2010 14m
2011 13m
2012 11m
2013 11m
2014 11m
2015 11m
2016 11m
2017 11m
2018 12m
2019 12m
2020 13m
2021 14m
2022 14m
2023 14m
2024 14m
2025 13m

Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated

Average daily flow

Average daily flow along the A4200, weighted by link length, by year
Year Vehicles a day
2000 21,258
2001 20,470
2002 19,455
2003 18,507
2004 17,777
2005 18,339
2006 18,779
2007 20,554
2008 19,942
2009 19,756
2010 19,580
2011 19,342
2012 16,000
2013 15,834
2014 15,946
2015 16,073
2016 16,151
2017 15,537
2018 15,137
2019 15,136
2020 15,640
2021 16,811
2022 17,612
2023 17,675
2024 16,951
2025 16,610

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, 2 of the 6 count points were counted; DfT estimated the rest from earlier counts and local trends.

A4200 collisions

Police recorded 165 collisions with the A4200 as the first road from 2021 to 2025, 29 of them fatal or serious. That is 239.9 per 100 million vehicle miles, higher than the 31.5 for all A-roads in Great Britain. On average there were 15.0 a year for each mile of road.

Reported collisions by year

Up 14.8% from 2021 to 2025.

Police-reported collisions on the A4200 by year: fatal or serious, and slight
Year SlightFatal or serious
2021 225
2022 227
2023 358
2024 314
2025 265

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 A4200, 2021 to 2025
Section Per 100m vehicle miles
A501 to A400 Camden · 25 collisions 285.9
A40 to A501 Camden · 70 collisions 165.3

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

A further 48 collisions were recorded at junctions where the A4200 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 A4200

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

  • Westminster
  • Camden

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 6 count points in 2025 15 September 2026
Reported collisions Road safety open data (STATS19) Department for Transport
Derived statistics UK Motoring
2021 to 2025 165 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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