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A5132 traffic and collisions

The A5132 is an A-road of 8.7 miles, in Derbyshire. 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 19m vehicle miles
  • Average daily traffic 6,000 vehicles a day, both directions
  • Busiest section 9,643 B5008 to A5132 main route
  • HGV share 2.4% of vehicle miles
  • Traffic since 2019 +4.5% same count points
  • Collisions, 2021 to 2025 41 45.7 per 100m vehicle miles

How busy is the A5132?

On an average day in 2025, 6,000 vehicles passed each point on the A5132, counting both directions. The busiest section is B5008 to A5132 main route (Derbyshire), with 9,643 a day; the quietest listed is A514 to C road Twyford to Stenson, with 4,478.

Busiest sections, 2025

B5008 to A5132 main route carries 1.6 times the road’s average flow.

Sections of the A5132 with the highest average daily flow, 2025
Section Vehicles a day
B5008 to A5132 main route Derbyshire · 0.7 mi · HGVs 1.8% 9,643
C road Twyford to Stenson to B5008 Derbyshire · 2.1 mi · HGVs 1.0% 6,296
Roundabout where A50 joins A5132 Derby Road to Junction where A5132 Carriers Road joins with A38 Derby Road Derbyshire · 2.8 mi · HGVs 1.2% 6,273
A514 to C road Twyford to Stenson Derbyshire · 2.7 mi · HGVs 5.6% 4,478

Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated

Route

In Derbyshire · 8.7 miles

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

A5132 traffic and collisions by section

5 sections between junctions, in route order. Each is the average of its DfT count points, weighted by length. 2 short link roads and spurs (0.2 miles) count in the road’s totals but are not listed.

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Sections of the A5132 in route order, 2025 traffic
#
1A514 to C road Twyford to StensonDerbyshire2.74,4785.6%+19.4%1682.2
2C road Twyford to Stenson to B5008Derbyshire2.16,2961.0%−7.2%9
3B5008 to A5132 main routeDerbyshire0.79,6431.8%−7.1%fewer than 3
4At A5132 spurDerbyshire0.27,8773.5%−7.2%fewer than 3
5Roundabout where A50 joins A5132 Derby Road to Junction where A5132 Carriers Road joins with A38 Derby RoadDerbyshire2.86,2731.2%+12.8%1032.5

Vehicles a day is the average daily flow in 2025. “Since 2019” compares the same count points. Collisions are those with the A5132 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.

A5132 traffic by vehicle type

Cars and taxis make up 81.3% of the vehicle miles on the A5132. HGVs account for 2.4%, rising to 5.6% on A514 to C road Twyford to Stenson.

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 A5132, by year
Year HGV share
2000 6.1%
2001 6.3%
2002 6.0%
2003 4.7%
2004 4.7%
2005 4.6%
2006 3.2%
2007 3.5%
2008 3.2%
2009 3.0%
2010 3.0%
2011 2.8%
2012 2.9%
2013 2.9%
2014 3.0%
2015 2.4%
2016 2.4%
2017 2.5%
2018 2.5%
2019 2.2%
2020 2.6%
2021 2.1%
2022 2.0%
2023 2.5%
2024 2.4%
2025 2.4%

Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated

A5132 traffic trend

Traffic on the A5132 came to 19.1 million vehicle miles in 2025. At the count points present in both years, it is up 4.5% on 2019, before the pandemic, and up 9.8% on 2015.

Vehicle miles a year

Like for like, traffic is up 1.2% on 2000.

Vehicle miles on the A5132 each year, the whole road as it was that year
Year Vehicle miles
2000 17m
2001 16m
2002 16m
2003 17m
2004 17m
2005 17m
2006 18m
2007 17m
2008 16m
2009 16m
2010 16m
2011 18m
2012 18m
2013 17m
2014 18m
2015 18m
2016 18m
2017 18m
2018 18m
2019 18m
2020 14m
2021 16m
2022 17m
2023 19m
2024 19m
2025 19m

Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated

Average daily flow

Average daily flow along the A5132, weighted by link length, by year
Year Vehicles a day
2000 5,266
2001 4,763
2002 4,804
2003 5,032
2004 5,089
2005 5,103
2006 5,315
2007 5,288
2008 4,930
2009 4,888
2010 4,899
2011 5,411
2012 5,313
2013 5,285
2014 5,410
2015 5,337
2016 5,458
2017 5,552
2018 5,576
2019 5,741
2020 4,318
2021 5,048
2022 5,449
2023 5,860
2024 5,929
2025 6,000

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

A5132 collisions

Police recorded 41 collisions with the A5132 as the first road from 2021 to 2025, 14 of them fatal or serious. That is 45.7 per 100 million vehicle miles, higher than the 31.5 for all A-roads in Great Britain. On average there were 0.9 a year for each mile of road.

Reported collisions by year

About the same in 2025 as in 2021.

Police-reported collisions on the A5132 by year
Year Collisions
2021 7
2022 8
2023 8
2024 11
2025 7

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 A5132, 2021 to 2025
Section Per 100m vehicle miles
A514 to C road Twyford to Stenson Derbyshire · 16 collisions 82.2
Roundabout where A50 joins A5132 Derby Road to Junction where A5132 Carriers Road joins with A38 Derby Road Derbyshire · 10 collisions 32.5

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

A further 8 collisions were recorded at junctions where the A5132 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 A5132

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

  • Derbyshire

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 41 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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