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A532 traffic and collisions
The A532 is an A-road of 5.4 miles, in East Cheshire. This page covers its traffic at 9 DfT count points since 2000 and the collisions police recorded on it.
- Traffic in 2025 25m vehicle miles
- Average daily traffic 12,477 vehicles a day, both directions
- Busiest section 14,872 feeder road to Third & Fourth Avenues to A534
- HGV share 2.2% of vehicle miles
- Traffic since 2019 +4.3% same count points
- Collisions, 2021 to 2025 75 72.9 per 100m vehicle miles
How busy is the A532?
On an average day in 2025, 12,477 vehicles passed each point on the A532, counting both directions. The busiest section is feeder road to Third & Fourth Avenues to A534 (East Cheshire), with 14,872 a day; the quietest listed is A532 West Street to A5019 Oak Street, with 8,120.
Busiest sections, 2025
feeder road to Third & Fourth Avenues to A534 carries 1.2 times the road’s average flow.
| Section | Vehicles a day |
|---|---|
| feeder road to Third & Fourth Avenues to A534 East Cheshire · 0.5 mi · HGVs 7.2% | 14,872 |
| A530 to A5078 East Cheshire · 1.1 mi · HGVs 1.2% | 14,507 |
| A5020 to feeder road to Third & Fourth Avenues East Cheshire · 0.5 mi · HGVs 7.2% | 13,398 |
| A534 to Hungerford Way East Cheshire · 0.5 mi · HGVs 1.3% | 12,058 |
| A532 West Street to A5019 Oak Street East Cheshire · 1.1 mi · HGVs 0.9% | 8,120 |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
Route
In East Cheshire · 5.4 miles
A532 traffic and collisions by section
8 sections between junctions, in route order. Each is the average of its DfT count points, weighted by length. 1 short link roads and spurs (0.9 miles) count in the road’s totals but are not listed.
Sections Tap a column heading to sort
| # | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A5020 to feeder road to Third & Fourth AvenuesEast Cheshire | 13,398 | 4 |
| 2 | feeder road to Third & Fourth Avenues to A534East Cheshire | 14,872 | fewer than 3 |
| 3 | A534 to Hungerford WayEast Cheshire | 12,058 | 11 |
| 4 | Vernon Way to Hungerford RoadEast Cheshire | 22,056 | 10 |
| 5 | A5078 to A532East Cheshire | 18,389 | 4 |
| 6 | A5078 Edleston Rd to A5019East Cheshire | 13,611 | 0 |
| 7 | A532 West Street to A5019 Oak StreetEast Cheshire | 8,120 | fewer than 3 |
| 8 | A530 to A5078East Cheshire | 14,507 | 18 |
Vehicles a day is the average daily flow in 2025. “Since 2019” compares the same count points. Collisions are those with the A532 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.
A532 traffic by vehicle type
Cars and taxis make up 85.7% of the vehicle miles on the A532. HGVs account for 2.2%, rising to 7.2% on A5020 to feeder road to Third & Fourth Avenues.
Vehicle mix, 2025
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
HGV share of traffic
| Year | HGV share |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 2.4% |
| 2001 | 2.2% |
| 2002 | 2.0% |
| 2003 | 2.0% |
| 2004 | 2.5% |
| 2005 | 3.4% |
| 2006 | 2.9% |
| 2007 | 2.2% |
| 2008 | 2.2% |
| 2009 | 2.0% |
| 2010 | 2.1% |
| 2011 | 2.0% |
| 2012 | 1.5% |
| 2013 | 1.5% |
| 2014 | 1.5% |
| 2015 | 1.2% |
| 2016 | 1.4% |
| 2017 | 2.4% |
| 2018 | 2.5% |
| 2019 | 3.4% |
| 2020 | 3.8% |
| 2021 | 3.6% |
| 2022 | 3.5% |
| 2023 | 3.4% |
| 2024 | 2.4% |
| 2025 | 2.2% |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
A532 traffic trend
Traffic on the A532 came to 24.6 million vehicle miles in 2025. At the count points present in both years, it is up 4.3% on 2019, before the pandemic, and up 8.2% on 2015.
Vehicle miles a year
Like for like, traffic is up 12.7% on 2000.
| Year | Vehicle miles |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 13m |
| 2001 | 13m |
| 2002 | 14m |
| 2003 | 13m |
| 2004 | 13m |
| 2005 | 12m |
| 2006 | 15m |
| 2007 | 14m |
| 2008 | 14m |
| 2009 | 14m |
| 2010 | 14m |
| 2011 | 14m |
| 2012 | 15m |
| 2013 | 14m |
| 2014 | 15m |
| 2015 | 14m |
| 2016 | 14m |
| 2017 | 17m |
| 2018 | 17m |
| 2019 | 20m |
| 2020 | 15m |
| 2021 | 17m |
| 2022 | 18m |
| 2023 | 18m |
| 2024 | 26m |
| 2025 | 25m |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
Average daily flow
| Year | Vehicles a day |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 10,669 |
| 2001 | 11,099 |
| 2002 | 11,304 |
| 2003 | 11,084 |
| 2004 | 10,500 |
| 2005 | 9,940 |
| 2006 | 12,390 |
| 2007 | 12,173 |
| 2008 | 11,965 |
| 2009 | 12,123 |
| 2010 | 12,110 |
| 2011 | 12,191 |
| 2012 | 12,391 |
| 2013 | 12,369 |
| 2014 | 12,677 |
| 2015 | 12,363 |
| 2016 | 12,025 |
| 2017 | 12,468 |
| 2018 | 12,371 |
| 2019 | 12,808 |
| 2020 | 9,922 |
| 2021 | 10,935 |
| 2022 | 11,688 |
| 2023 | 11,857 |
| 2024 | 12,913 |
| 2025 | 12,477 |
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 (55.6% of today’s road for 2019). In 2025, 4 of the 9 count points were counted; DfT estimated the rest from earlier counts and local trends.
A532 collisions
Police recorded 75 collisions with the A532 as the first road from 2021 to 2025, 14 of them fatal or serious. That is 72.9 per 100 million vehicle miles, higher than the 31.5 for all A-roads in Great Britain. On average there were 2.8 a year for each mile of road.
Reported collisions by year
Up 5.9% from 2021 to 2025.
| Year | Collisions |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 17 |
| 2022 | 10 |
| 2023 | 19 |
| 2024 | 11 |
| 2025 | 18 |
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 |
|---|---|
| A534 to Hungerford Way East Cheshire · 11 collisions | 102.4 |
| A530 to A5078 East Cheshire · 18 collisions | 77.8 |
Source:DfT STATS19,UK Motoring analysis 2021 to 2025 Updated
A further 13 collisions were recorded at junctions where the A532 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 A532
In route order. Each is the highway authority DfT files the count points under.
- East Cheshire
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 | 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 | 75 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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