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A592 traffic and collisions
The A592 is an A-road of 33.9 miles, in Westmorland and Furness. This page covers its traffic at 11 DfT count points since 2000 and the collisions police recorded on it.
- Traffic in 2025 40m vehicle miles
- Average daily traffic 3,269 vehicles a day, both directions
- Busiest section 11,054 Clifford Rd to A592 Cromwell Road
- HGV share 1.3% of vehicle miles
- Traffic since 2019 −1.5% same count points
- Collisions, 2021 to 2025 78 41.8 per 100m vehicle miles
How busy is the A592?
On an average day in 2025, 3,269 vehicles passed each point on the A592, counting both directions. The busiest section is Clifford Rd to A592 Cromwell Road (Westmorland and Furness), with 11,054 a day; the quietest listed is A591 to A5091, with 1,736.
Busiest sections, 2025
Clifford Rd to A592 Cromwell Road carries 3.4 times the road’s average flow.
| Section | Vehicles a day |
|---|---|
| Clifford Rd to A592 Cromwell Road Westmorland and Furness · 0.5 mi · HGVs 1.0% | 11,054 |
| A5074 to A591 Westmorland and Furness · 1.6 mi · HGVs 1.6% | 6,713 |
| B5360 to A5074 Westmorland and Furness · 2.4 mi · HGVs 1.6% | 4,453 |
| A590 to B5360 Westmorland and Furness · 5.0 mi · HGVs 1.7% | 4,160 |
| B5320 to A66 Westmorland and Furness · 3.5 mi · HGVs 2.1% | 3,262 |
| A5091 to B5320 Westmorland and Furness · 5.3 mi · HGVs 1.2% | 2,901 |
| A591 to A5091 Westmorland and Furness · 14.7 mi · HGVs 0.6% | 1,736 |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
Route
In Westmorland and Furness · 33.9 miles
A592 traffic and collisions by section
10 sections between junctions, in route order. Each is the average of its DfT count points, weighted by length. 1 short link roads and spurs (0.2 miles) count in the road’s totals but are not listed.
Sections Tap a column heading to sort
| # | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A590 to B5360Westmorland and Furness | 4,160 | 10 |
| 2 | B5360 to A5074Westmorland and Furness | 4,453 | 8 |
| 3 | At A5074Westmorland and Furness | 9,524 | 0 |
| 4 | A5074 to A591Westmorland and Furness | 6,713 | 6 |
| 5 | A591 to A5091Westmorland and Furness | 1,736 | 28 |
| 6 | A5091 to B5320Westmorland and Furness | 2,901 | 13 |
| 7 | B5320 to A66Westmorland and Furness | 3,262 | 3 |
| 8 | M6 to Clifford RdWestmorland and Furness | 11,165 | fewer than 3 |
| 9 | Clifford Rd to A592 Cromwell RoadWestmorland and Furness | 11,054 | fewer than 3 |
| 10 | A592 Cromwell RoadWestmorland and Furness | 15,043 | 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 A592 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.
A592 traffic by vehicle type
Cars and taxis make up 80.9% of the vehicle miles on the A592. HGVs account for 1.3%.
Vehicle mix, 2025
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
HGV share of traffic
| Year | HGV share |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 1.8% |
| 2001 | 1.8% |
| 2002 | 1.6% |
| 2003 | 1.5% |
| 2004 | 1.7% |
| 2005 | 1.4% |
| 2006 | 1.6% |
| 2007 | 2.0% |
| 2008 | 1.8% |
| 2009 | 1.7% |
| 2010 | 1.8% |
| 2011 | 1.8% |
| 2012 | 1.8% |
| 2013 | 1.8% |
| 2014 | 1.8% |
| 2015 | 1.7% |
| 2016 | 1.9% |
| 2017 | 2.1% |
| 2018 | 2.2% |
| 2019 | 2.2% |
| 2020 | 2.7% |
| 2021 | 2.6% |
| 2022 | 2.2% |
| 2023 | 2.1% |
| 2024 | 1.6% |
| 2025 | 1.3% |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
A592 traffic trend
Traffic on the A592 came to 40.4 million vehicle miles in 2025. At the count points present in both years, it is down 1.5% on 2019, before the pandemic, and down 0.6% on 2015.
Vehicle miles a year
Like for like, traffic is down 4.4% on 2000.
| Year | Vehicle miles |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 37m |
| 2001 | 37m |
| 2002 | 42m |
| 2003 | 43m |
| 2004 | 42m |
| 2005 | 42m |
| 2006 | 44m |
| 2007 | 40m |
| 2008 | 40m |
| 2009 | 40m |
| 2010 | 39m |
| 2011 | 39m |
| 2012 | 38m |
| 2013 | 39m |
| 2014 | 40m |
| 2015 | 40m |
| 2016 | 41m |
| 2017 | 41m |
| 2018 | 41m |
| 2019 | 41m |
| 2020 | 28m |
| 2021 | 31m |
| 2022 | 37m |
| 2023 | 38m |
| 2024 | 40m |
| 2025 | 40m |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
Average daily flow
| Year | Vehicles a day |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 3,056 |
| 2001 | 3,104 |
| 2002 | 3,382 |
| 2003 | 3,481 |
| 2004 | 3,441 |
| 2005 | 3,450 |
| 2006 | 3,526 |
| 2007 | 3,180 |
| 2008 | 3,206 |
| 2009 | 3,232 |
| 2010 | 3,118 |
| 2011 | 3,135 |
| 2012 | 3,093 |
| 2013 | 3,119 |
| 2014 | 3,191 |
| 2015 | 3,252 |
| 2016 | 3,278 |
| 2017 | 3,261 |
| 2018 | 3,276 |
| 2019 | 3,320 |
| 2020 | 2,294 |
| 2021 | 2,525 |
| 2022 | 3,027 |
| 2023 | 3,076 |
| 2024 | 3,193 |
| 2025 | 3,269 |
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, 3 of the 11 count points were counted; DfT estimated the rest from earlier counts and local trends.
A592 collisions
Police recorded 78 collisions with the A592 as the first road from 2021 to 2025, 29 of them fatal or serious, including 3 fatal. That is 41.8 per 100 million vehicle miles, higher than the 31.5 for all A-roads in Great Britain. On average there were 0.5 a year for each mile of road.
Reported collisions by year
Up 21.4% from 2021 to 2025.
| Year | Slight | Fatal or serious |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 9 | 5 |
| 2022 | 8 | 5 |
| 2023 | 11 | 6 |
| 2024 | 10 | 7 |
| 2025 | 11 | 6 |
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 |
|---|---|
| A591 to A5091 Westmorland and Furness · 28 collisions | 63.8 |
| A5091 to B5320 Westmorland and Furness · 13 collisions | 53.5 |
| A590 to B5360 Westmorland and Furness · 10 collisions | 28.9 |
Source:DfT STATS19,UK Motoring analysis 2021 to 2025 Updated
A further 7 collisions were recorded at junctions where the A592 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 A592
In route order. Each is the highway authority DfT files the count points under.
- Westmorland and Furness
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 | 11 count points in 2025 | 15 September 2026 |
| Reported collisions | Road safety open data (STATS19) Department for Transport Derived statistics UK Motoring | 2021 to 2025 | 78 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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