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A5058 traffic and collisions
The A5058 is an A-road of 8.8 miles, from Liverpool to Sefton. This page covers its traffic at 14 DfT count points since 2000 and the collisions police recorded on it.
- Traffic in 2025 81m vehicle miles
- Average daily traffic 25,340 vehicles a day, both directions
- Busiest section 37,646 A5080 to A57
- HGV share 3.0% of vehicle miles
- Traffic since 2019 +2.2% same count points
- Collisions, 2021 to 2025 192 49.0 per 100m vehicle miles
How busy is the A5058?
On an average day in 2025, 25,340 vehicles passed each point on the A5058, counting both directions. The busiest section is A5080 to A57 (Liverpool), with 37,646 a day; the quietest listed is A561 to B5180, with 13,770.
Busiest sections, 2025
A5080 to A57 carries 1.5 times the road’s average flow.
| Section | Vehicles a day |
|---|---|
| A5080 to A57 Liverpool · 0.6 mi · HGVs 2.4% | 37,646 |
| A580 to A59 Liverpool · 0.5 mi · HGVs 5.1% | 36,497 |
| A57 to A5049 Liverpool · 1.6 mi · HGVs 2.2% | 35,348 |
| A5049 to A580 Liverpool · 0.5 mi · HGVs 2.7% | 31,953 |
| A562 to A5080 Liverpool · 1.6 mi · HGVs 1.2% | 27,205 |
| At A580 Liverpool · 1.1 mi · HGVs 3.6% | 23,445 |
| A561 to B5180 Liverpool · 1.6 mi · HGVs 0.8% | 13,770 |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
Route
Liverpool to Sefton · 8.8 miles
A5058 traffic and collisions by section
13 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 | A561 to B5180Liverpool | 13,770 | 11 |
| 2 | A562 to A5080Liverpool | 27,205 | 26 |
| 3 | A5080 to A57Liverpool | 37,646 | 13 |
| 4 | A57 to A5049Liverpool | 35,348 | 48 |
| 5 | A5049 to A580Liverpool | 31,953 | 15 |
| 6 | At A580Liverpool | 23,445 | 35 |
| 7 | A580 to A59Liverpool | 36,497 | 16 |
| 8 | A59 to A5038Liverpool, Sefton | 27,751 | 8 |
| 9 | A5038 to A5057Sefton | 19,193 | 0 |
| 10 | A5057 to A5090Sefton | 11,174 | fewer than 3 |
| 11 | A5090 to A567Sefton | 10,731 | 6 |
| 12 | A567 to A565Sefton | 9,228 | 10 |
| 13 | A565 to A5036Sefton | 5,348 | fewer than 3 |
Vehicles a day is the average daily flow in 2025. “Since 2019” compares the same count points. Collisions are those with the A5058 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.
A5058 traffic by vehicle type
Cars and taxis make up 82.1% of the vehicle miles on the A5058. HGVs account for 3.0%, rising to 5.1% on A580 to A59.
Vehicle mix, 2025
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
HGV share of traffic
| Year | HGV share |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 4.7% |
| 2001 | 4.8% |
| 2002 | 5.2% |
| 2003 | 4.9% |
| 2004 | 4.5% |
| 2005 | 4.0% |
| 2006 | 3.9% |
| 2007 | 3.9% |
| 2008 | 3.8% |
| 2009 | 3.9% |
| 2010 | 4.3% |
| 2011 | 4.4% |
| 2012 | 3.5% |
| 2013 | 3.5% |
| 2014 | 3.5% |
| 2015 | 3.5% |
| 2016 | 3.5% |
| 2017 | 3.5% |
| 2018 | 3.7% |
| 2019 | 3.7% |
| 2020 | 4.0% |
| 2021 | 3.8% |
| 2022 | 3.4% |
| 2023 | 3.1% |
| 2024 | 3.0% |
| 2025 | 3.0% |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
A5058 traffic trend
Traffic on the A5058 came to 81.4 million vehicle miles in 2025. At the count points present in both years, it is up 2.2% on 2019, before the pandemic, and up 2.0% on 2015.
Vehicle miles a year
Like for like, traffic is up 7.1% on 2000.
| Year | Vehicle miles |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 75m |
| 2001 | 75m |
| 2002 | 76m |
| 2003 | 78m |
| 2004 | 78m |
| 2005 | 78m |
| 2006 | 80m |
| 2007 | 79m |
| 2008 | 79m |
| 2009 | 80m |
| 2010 | 77m |
| 2011 | 71m |
| 2012 | 70m |
| 2013 | 71m |
| 2014 | 71m |
| 2015 | 73m |
| 2016 | 73m |
| 2017 | 73m |
| 2018 | 73m |
| 2019 | 74m |
| 2020 | 65m |
| 2021 | 72m |
| 2022 | 77m |
| 2023 | 80m |
| 2024 | 81m |
| 2025 | 81m |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
Average daily flow
| Year | Vehicles a day |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 23,839 |
| 2001 | 23,932 |
| 2002 | 24,203 |
| 2003 | 24,716 |
| 2004 | 24,800 |
| 2005 | 24,863 |
| 2006 | 25,333 |
| 2007 | 25,082 |
| 2008 | 25,027 |
| 2009 | 25,442 |
| 2010 | 24,437 |
| 2011 | 23,835 |
| 2012 | 23,340 |
| 2013 | 23,630 |
| 2014 | 23,863 |
| 2015 | 24,316 |
| 2016 | 24,321 |
| 2017 | 24,475 |
| 2018 | 24,231 |
| 2019 | 23,624 |
| 2020 | 20,311 |
| 2021 | 22,417 |
| 2022 | 24,039 |
| 2023 | 24,874 |
| 2024 | 25,254 |
| 2025 | 25,340 |
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 (81.8% of today’s road for 2019). In 2025, 0 of the 14 count points were counted; DfT estimated the rest from earlier counts and local trends.
A5058 collisions
Police recorded 192 collisions with the A5058 as the first road from 2021 to 2025, 53 of them fatal or serious. That is 49.0 per 100 million vehicle miles, higher than the 31.5 for all A-roads in Great Britain. On average there were 4.4 a year for each mile of road.
Reported collisions by year
Down 14.6% from 2021 to 2025.
| Year | Collisions |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 41 |
| 2022 | 39 |
| 2023 | 43 |
| 2024 | 34 |
| 2025 | 35 |
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 |
|---|---|
| At A580 Liverpool · 35 collisions | 77.8 |
| A5049 to A580 Liverpool · 15 collisions | 52.2 |
| A580 to A59 Liverpool · 16 collisions | 49.5 |
| A57 to A5049 Liverpool · 48 collisions | 48.3 |
| A562 to A5080 Liverpool · 26 collisions | 34.7 |
| A5080 to A57 Liverpool · 13 collisions | 32.4 |
| A561 to B5180 Liverpool · 11 collisions | 28.2 |
Source:DfT STATS19,UK Motoring analysis 2021 to 2025 Updated
A further 59 collisions were recorded at junctions where the A5058 was the second road; they are not in the figures above. Fatal or serious uses DfT’s adjusted serious figures. How we count collisions
Council areas on the A5058
In route order. Each is the highway authority DfT files the count points under.
- Liverpool
- Sefton
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 | 14 count points in 2025 | 15 September 2026 |
| Reported collisions | Road safety open data (STATS19) Department for Transport Derived statistics UK Motoring | 2021 to 2025 | 192 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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