Trunk A-road
A585 traffic and collisions
The A585 is a trunk A-road of 14.5 miles, in Lancashire. This page covers its traffic at 9 DfT count points since 2000 and the collisions police recorded on it.
- Traffic in 2025 126m vehicle miles
- Average daily traffic 23,818 vehicles a day, both directions
- Busiest section 33,117 A586 to A586/A585 intersection nr. Pointer House
- HGV share 3.6% of vehicle miles
- Traffic since 2019 +5.6% same count points
- Collisions, 2021 to 2025 174 30.5 per 100m vehicle miles
How busy is the A585?
On an average day in 2025, 23,818 vehicles passed each point on the A585, counting both directions. The busiest section is A586 to A586/A585 intersection nr. Pointer House (Lancashire), with 33,117 a day; the quietest listed is A583 to M55, with 14,930.
Busiest sections, 2025
A586 to A586/A585 intersection nr. Pointer House carries 1.4 times the road’s average flow.
| Section | Vehicles a day |
|---|---|
| A586 to A586/A585 intersection nr. Pointer House Lancashire · 1.7 mi · HGVs 4.3% | 33,117 |
| M55 to A586 Lancashire · 3.4 mi · HGVs 4.3% | 30,315 |
| A588 to B5628 Fleetwoood Road South Lancashire · 1.3 mi · HGVs 4.1% | 26,943 |
| A586 Garstang Road to A588 Lancashire · 1.0 mi · HGVs 4.1% | 23,883 |
| B5628 Fleetwood Road South to Bourne Way, Cleveleys Lancashire · 1.9 mi · HGVs 2.9% | 20,077 |
| Bourne Way, Cleveleys to A587 Lancashire · 2.7 mi · HGVs 1.6% | 17,558 |
| A583 to M55 Lancashire · 1.9 mi · HGVs 3.9% | 14,930 |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
Route
In Lancashire · 14.5 miles
A585 traffic and collisions by section
9 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 | A583 to M55Lancashire | 14,930 | 10 |
| 2 | M55 to A586Lancashire | 30,315 | 32 |
| 3 | A586 to A586/A585 intersection nr. Pointer HouseLancashire | 33,117 | 11 |
| 4 | A586 Garstang Road to A588Lancashire | 23,883 | 11 |
| 5 | At A588Lancashire | 34,975 | 8 |
| 6 | A588 to B5628 Fleetwoood Road SouthLancashire | 26,943 | 26 |
| 7 | B5628 Fleetwood Road South to Bourne Way, CleveleysLancashire | 20,077 | 51 |
| 8 | Bourne Way, Cleveleys to A587Lancashire | 17,558 | 20 |
| 9 | A587 to Church StLancashire | 8,909 | 5 |
Vehicles a day is the average daily flow in 2025. “Since 2019” compares the same count points. Collisions are those with the A585 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.
A585 traffic by vehicle type
Cars and taxis make up 78.2% of the vehicle miles on the A585. HGVs account for 3.6%.
Vehicle mix, 2025
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
HGV share of traffic
| Year | HGV share |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 5.4% |
| 2001 | 5.6% |
| 2002 | 5.6% |
| 2003 | 5.6% |
| 2004 | 5.9% |
| 2005 | 5.7% |
| 2006 | 6.2% |
| 2007 | 6.0% |
| 2008 | 5.5% |
| 2009 | 5.2% |
| 2010 | 5.2% |
| 2011 | 5.1% |
| 2012 | 4.5% |
| 2013 | 4.4% |
| 2014 | 4.3% |
| 2015 | 4.3% |
| 2016 | 4.1% |
| 2017 | 4.1% |
| 2018 | 4.1% |
| 2019 | 4.0% |
| 2020 | 4.8% |
| 2021 | 4.8% |
| 2022 | 4.4% |
| 2023 | 4.2% |
| 2024 | 4.3% |
| 2025 | 3.6% |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
A585 traffic trend
Traffic on the A585 came to 126 million vehicle miles in 2025. At the count points present in both years, it is up 5.6% on 2019, before the pandemic, and about the same as in 2015.
Vehicle miles a year
Like for like, traffic is up 13.5% on 2000.
| Year | Vehicle miles |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 101m |
| 2001 | 102m |
| 2002 | 104m |
| 2003 | 103m |
| 2004 | 104m |
| 2005 | 105m |
| 2006 | 109m |
| 2007 | 109m |
| 2008 | 109m |
| 2009 | 107m |
| 2010 | 106m |
| 2011 | 108m |
| 2012 | 109m |
| 2013 | 110m |
| 2014 | 113m |
| 2015 | 117m |
| 2016 | 119m |
| 2017 | 104m |
| 2018 | 114m |
| 2019 | 114m |
| 2020 | 88m |
| 2021 | 103m |
| 2022 | 110m |
| 2023 | 112m |
| 2024 | 120m |
| 2025 | 126m |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
Average daily flow
| Year | Vehicles a day |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 20,422 |
| 2001 | 20,448 |
| 2002 | 20,853 |
| 2003 | 20,820 |
| 2004 | 20,880 |
| 2005 | 21,085 |
| 2006 | 21,913 |
| 2007 | 22,006 |
| 2008 | 22,014 |
| 2009 | 21,511 |
| 2010 | 21,339 |
| 2011 | 21,677 |
| 2012 | 21,883 |
| 2013 | 22,106 |
| 2014 | 22,681 |
| 2015 | 23,471 |
| 2016 | 23,910 |
| 2017 | 20,931 |
| 2018 | 22,045 |
| 2019 | 21,968 |
| 2020 | 17,039 |
| 2021 | 19,799 |
| 2022 | 21,297 |
| 2023 | 21,521 |
| 2024 | 22,571 |
| 2025 | 23,818 |
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 (79.3% of today’s road for 2019). In 2025, 6 of the 9 count points were counted; DfT estimated the rest from earlier counts and local trends.
A585 collisions
Police recorded 174 collisions with the A585 as the first road from 2021 to 2025, 46 of them fatal or serious. That is 30.5 per 100 million vehicle miles, close to the 31.5 for all A-roads in Great Britain. On average there were 2.4 a year for each mile of road.
Reported collisions by year
Down 5.7% from 2021 to 2025.
| Year | Slight | Fatal or serious |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 28 | 7 |
| 2022 | 20 | 14 |
| 2023 | 28 | 10 |
| 2024 | 26 | 8 |
| 2025 | 26 | 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.
| Section | Per 100m vehicle miles |
|---|---|
| B5628 Fleetwood Road South to Bourne Way, Cleveleys Lancashire · 51 collisions | 74.7 |
| A586 Garstang Road to A588 Lancashire · 11 collisions | 62.4 |
| A588 to B5628 Fleetwoood Road South Lancashire · 26 collisions | 47.3 |
| A586 to A586/A585 intersection nr. Pointer House Lancashire · 11 collisions | 29.0 |
| Bourne Way, Cleveleys to A587 Lancashire · 20 collisions | 23.3 |
| M55 to A586 Lancashire · 32 collisions | 19.9 |
| A583 to M55 Lancashire · 10 collisions | 16.4 |
Source:DfT STATS19,UK Motoring analysis 2021 to 2025 Updated
A further 28 collisions were recorded at junctions where the A585 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 A585
In route order. Each is the highway authority DfT files the count points under.
- Lancashire
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 | 174 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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