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A522 traffic and collisions
The A522 is an A-road of 13.7 miles, in Staffordshire. This page covers its traffic at 10 DfT count points since 2000 and the collisions police recorded on it.
- Traffic in 2025 31m vehicle miles
- Average daily traffic 6,259 vehicles a day, both directions
- Busiest section 7,748 Dandillion Ave, Cheadle to A521 Chapel St
- HGV share 5.3% of vehicle miles
- Traffic since 2019 −2.8% same count points
- Collisions, 2021 to 2025 30 20.2 per 100m vehicle miles
How busy is the A522?
On an average day in 2025, 6,259 vehicles passed each point on the A522, counting both directions. The busiest section is Dandillion Ave, Cheadle to A521 Chapel St (Staffordshire), with 7,748 a day; the quietest listed is A52 to A520, with 3,155.
Busiest sections, 2025
Dandillion Ave, Cheadle to A521 Chapel St carries 1.2 times the road’s average flow.
| Section | Vehicles a day |
|---|---|
| Dandillion Ave, Cheadle to A521 Chapel St Staffordshire · 0.8 mi · HGVs 3.1% | 7,748 |
| A522 High St to Dandillion Ave, Cheadle Staffordshire · 1.5 mi · HGVs 5.2% | 7,243 |
| Park Drive, Cheadle to A52 Staffordshire · 2.0 mi · HGVs 5.5% | 6,985 |
| Roundabout NE of Parks Farm (joining A522 slip road) Staffordshire · 1.9 mi · HGVs 2.4% | 6,183 |
| A50 junction to Upper Tean Staffordshire · 5.1 mi · HGVs 7.0% | 5,919 |
| A52 to A520 Staffordshire · 1.6 mi · HGVs 5.2% | 3,155 |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
Route
In Staffordshire · 13.7 miles
A522 traffic and collisions by section
10 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 | Roundabout NE of Parks Farm (joining A522 slip road)Staffordshire | 6,183 | 3 |
| 2 | Roundabout NE of Parks Farm (joining A522 slip road) to Roundabout directly south of View Farm, Staffordshire (joining A522 slip road and A522 Dual Carriageway)Staffordshire | 5,913 | 0 |
| 3 | A50 junction to Upper TeanStaffordshire | 5,919 | 10 |
| 4 | A522 High St to Dandillion Ave, CheadleStaffordshire | 7,243 | 3 |
| 5 | Dandillion Ave, Cheadle to A521 Chapel StStaffordshire | 7,748 | 5 |
| 6 | A521 Chapel St to A521 High StStaffordshire | 13,102 | 3 |
| 7 | At A522Staffordshire | 11,869 | 0 |
| 8 | A521 to Park Drive, CheadleStaffordshire | 7,754 | 0 |
| 9 | Park Drive, Cheadle to A52Staffordshire | 6,985 | 5 |
| 10 | A52 to A520Staffordshire | 3,155 | 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 A522 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.
A522 traffic by vehicle type
Cars and taxis make up 79.8% of the vehicle miles on the A522. HGVs account for 5.3%, rising to 7.0% on A50 junction to Upper Tean.
Vehicle mix, 2025
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
HGV share of traffic
| Year | HGV share |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 7.0% |
| 2001 | 6.9% |
| 2002 | 6.1% |
| 2003 | 5.9% |
| 2004 | 6.4% |
| 2005 | 6.1% |
| 2006 | 6.6% |
| 2007 | 7.1% |
| 2008 | 6.8% |
| 2009 | 6.2% |
| 2010 | 5.9% |
| 2011 | 6.1% |
| 2012 | 6.2% |
| 2013 | 6.3% |
| 2014 | 6.3% |
| 2015 | 6.3% |
| 2016 | 4.9% |
| 2017 | 5.0% |
| 2018 | 5.1% |
| 2019 | 4.9% |
| 2020 | 5.4% |
| 2021 | 5.5% |
| 2022 | 5.7% |
| 2023 | 5.5% |
| 2024 | 5.4% |
| 2025 | 5.3% |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
A522 traffic trend
Traffic on the A522 came to 31.3 million vehicle miles in 2025. At the count points present in both years, it is down 2.8% on 2019, before the pandemic, and down 3.0% on 2015.
Vehicle miles a year
Like for like, traffic is down 4.7% on 2000.
| Year | Vehicle miles |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 33m |
| 2001 | 33m |
| 2002 | 32m |
| 2003 | 33m |
| 2004 | 33m |
| 2005 | 32m |
| 2006 | 32m |
| 2007 | 32m |
| 2008 | 32m |
| 2009 | 31m |
| 2010 | 31m |
| 2011 | 31m |
| 2012 | 31m |
| 2013 | 30m |
| 2014 | 31m |
| 2015 | 31m |
| 2016 | 32m |
| 2017 | 32m |
| 2018 | 31m |
| 2019 | 31m |
| 2020 | 24m |
| 2021 | 26m |
| 2022 | 30m |
| 2023 | 31m |
| 2024 | 31m |
| 2025 | 31m |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
Average daily flow
| Year | Vehicles a day |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 6,545 |
| 2001 | 6,576 |
| 2002 | 6,405 |
| 2003 | 6,490 |
| 2004 | 6,460 |
| 2005 | 6,284 |
| 2006 | 6,280 |
| 2007 | 6,268 |
| 2008 | 6,256 |
| 2009 | 6,216 |
| 2010 | 6,110 |
| 2011 | 6,165 |
| 2012 | 6,079 |
| 2013 | 6,015 |
| 2014 | 6,170 |
| 2015 | 6,228 |
| 2016 | 6,260 |
| 2017 | 6,273 |
| 2018 | 6,150 |
| 2019 | 5,939 |
| 2020 | 4,823 |
| 2021 | 5,226 |
| 2022 | 5,996 |
| 2023 | 6,109 |
| 2024 | 6,184 |
| 2025 | 6,259 |
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 (48.9% of today’s road for 2019). In 2025, 1 of the 10 count points were counted; DfT estimated the rest from earlier counts and local trends.
A522 collisions
Police recorded 30 collisions with the A522 as the first road from 2021 to 2025, 10 of them fatal or serious. That is 20.2 per 100 million vehicle miles, lower than the 31.5 for all A-roads in Great Britain. On average there were 0.4 a year for each mile of road.
Reported collisions by year
Up 200.0% from 2021 to 2025.
| Year | Collisions |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 4 |
| 2022 | 4 |
| 2023 | 5 |
| 2024 | 5 |
| 2025 | 12 |
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 |
|---|---|
| A50 junction to Upper Tean Staffordshire · 10 collisions | 19.5 |
Source:DfT STATS19,UK Motoring analysis 2021 to 2025 Updated
A further 5 collisions were recorded at junctions where the A522 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 A522
In route order. Each is the highway authority DfT files the count points under.
- Staffordshire
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 | 10 count points in 2025 | 15 September 2026 |
| Reported collisions | Road safety open data (STATS19) Department for Transport Derived statistics UK Motoring | 2021 to 2025 | 30 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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