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A586 traffic and collisions
The A586 is an A-road of 12.9 miles, from Lancashire to Blackpool. This page covers its traffic at 16 DfT count points since 2000 and the collisions police recorded on it.
- Traffic in 2025 49m vehicle miles
- Average daily traffic 10,500 vehicles a day, both directions
- Busiest section 17,445 A588 to A587
- HGV share 2.6% of vehicle miles
- Traffic since 2019 −6.4% same count points
- Collisions, 2021 to 2025 146 60.4 per 100m vehicle miles
How busy is the A586?
On an average day in 2025, 10,500 vehicles passed each point on the A586, counting both directions. The busiest section is A588 to A587 (Lancashire, Blackpool), with 17,445 a day; the quietest listed is A587 to B5124, with 7,851.
Busiest sections, 2025
A588 to A587 carries 1.7 times the road’s average flow.
| Section | Vehicles a day |
|---|---|
| A588 to A587 Lancashire, Blackpool · 1.6 mi · HGVs 1.2% | 17,445 |
| A588/A586 intersection near Poulton-le-Fylde to A585 Trunk Road Lancashire · 1.1 mi · HGVs 2.4% | 11,029 |
| A585 to A6 Lancashire · 7.0 mi · HGVs 3.6% | 10,112 |
| A587 to B5124 Blackpool · 1.1 mi · HGVs 1.8% | 7,851 |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
Route
Lancashire to Blackpool · 12.9 miles
A586 traffic and collisions by section
9 sections between junctions, in route order. Each is the average of its DfT count points, weighted by length. 6 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 | A585 to A6Lancashire | 10,112 | 25 |
| 2 | A588/A586 intersection near Poulton-le-Fylde to A585 Trunk RoadLancashire | 11,029 | 17 |
| 3 | At A588Lancashire | 16,148 | 7 |
| 4 | A588 to A587Lancashire, Blackpool | 17,445 | 5 |
| 5 | A587 to B5124Blackpool | 7,851 | 25 |
| 6 | B5124 to A586 Larkhill StBlackpool | 8,679 | 9 |
| 7 | midway between High St/Cookson St to Larkhill StBlackpool | 8,679 | 7 |
| 8 | Topping St to Talbot RdBlackpool | 3,692 | 6 |
| 9 | A583/A584 to A586 Dickson RdBlackpool | 3,602 | 27 |
Vehicles a day is the average daily flow in 2025. “Since 2019” compares the same count points. Collisions are those with the A586 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.
A586 traffic by vehicle type
Cars and taxis make up 78.9% of the vehicle miles on the A586. HGVs account for 2.6%.
Vehicle mix, 2025
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
HGV share of traffic
| Year | HGV share |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 3.9% |
| 2001 | 4.0% |
| 2002 | 4.2% |
| 2003 | 4.3% |
| 2004 | 4.9% |
| 2005 | 4.9% |
| 2006 | 4.7% |
| 2007 | 5.1% |
| 2008 | 4.5% |
| 2009 | 4.2% |
| 2010 | 4.0% |
| 2011 | 4.0% |
| 2012 | 3.3% |
| 2013 | 3.4% |
| 2014 | 3.4% |
| 2015 | 3.1% |
| 2016 | 3.2% |
| 2017 | 3.2% |
| 2018 | 3.0% |
| 2019 | 2.9% |
| 2020 | 3.2% |
| 2021 | 3.2% |
| 2022 | 3.0% |
| 2023 | 2.9% |
| 2024 | 2.7% |
| 2025 | 2.6% |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
A586 traffic trend
Traffic on the A586 came to 49.4 million vehicle miles in 2025. At the count points present in both years, it is down 6.4% on 2019, before the pandemic, and down 2.0% on 2015.
Vehicle miles a year
Like for like, traffic is down 13.5% on 2000.
| Year | Vehicle miles |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 58m |
| 2001 | 52m |
| 2002 | 54m |
| 2003 | 55m |
| 2004 | 57m |
| 2005 | 52m |
| 2006 | 54m |
| 2007 | 53m |
| 2008 | 54m |
| 2009 | 54m |
| 2010 | 54m |
| 2011 | 54m |
| 2012 | 54m |
| 2013 | 54m |
| 2014 | 55m |
| 2015 | 53m |
| 2016 | 54m |
| 2017 | 53m |
| 2018 | 54m |
| 2019 | 54m |
| 2020 | 42m |
| 2021 | 45m |
| 2022 | 49m |
| 2023 | 50m |
| 2024 | 49m |
| 2025 | 49m |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
Average daily flow
| Year | Vehicles a day |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 12,175 |
| 2001 | 10,881 |
| 2002 | 11,385 |
| 2003 | 11,507 |
| 2004 | 12,073 |
| 2005 | 10,853 |
| 2006 | 11,400 |
| 2007 | 11,117 |
| 2008 | 11,322 |
| 2009 | 11,386 |
| 2010 | 11,310 |
| 2011 | 11,408 |
| 2012 | 11,294 |
| 2013 | 11,265 |
| 2014 | 11,541 |
| 2015 | 11,064 |
| 2016 | 11,323 |
| 2017 | 11,236 |
| 2018 | 11,198 |
| 2019 | 11,139 |
| 2020 | 8,622 |
| 2021 | 9,338 |
| 2022 | 9,991 |
| 2023 | 10,200 |
| 2024 | 10,422 |
| 2025 | 10,500 |
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 (89.1% of today’s road for 2019). In 2025, 1 of the 16 count points were counted; DfT estimated the rest from earlier counts and local trends.
A586 collisions
Police recorded 146 collisions with the A586 as the first road from 2021 to 2025, 52 of them fatal or serious. That is 60.4 per 100 million vehicle miles, higher than the 31.5 for all A-roads in Great Britain. On average there were 2.3 a year for each mile of road.
Reported collisions by year
Up 50.0% from 2021 to 2025.
| Year | Slight | Fatal or serious |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 16 | 6 |
| 2022 | 16 | 13 |
| 2023 | 25 | 14 |
| 2024 | 15 | 8 |
| 2025 | 22 | 11 |
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 |
|---|---|
| A588/A586 intersection near Poulton-le-Fylde to A585 Trunk Road Lancashire · 17 collisions | 191.7 |
| A587 to B5124 Blackpool · 25 collisions | 163.6 |
| A585 to A6 Lancashire · 25 collisions | 20.1 |
Source:DfT STATS19,UK Motoring analysis 2021 to 2025 Updated
A further 37 collisions were recorded at junctions where the A586 was the second road; they are not in the figures above. Fatal or serious uses DfT’s adjusted serious figures. 87.7% of the collisions could be placed on a section. How we count collisions
Council areas on the A586
In route order. Each is the highway authority DfT files the count points under.
- Lancashire
- Blackpool
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 | 16 count points in 2025 | 15 September 2026 |
| Reported collisions | Road safety open data (STATS19) Department for Transport Derived statistics UK Motoring | 2021 to 2025 | 146 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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