A-road
A626 traffic and collisions
The A626 is an A-road of 10.0 miles, from Derbyshire to Stockport. This page covers its traffic at 5 DfT count points since 2000 and the collisions police recorded on it.
- Traffic in 2025 36m vehicle miles
- Average daily traffic 9,919 vehicles a day, both directions
- Busiest section 14,783 Junction where A626, A6188 and Spring Gardens Meet to Junction where A626 Marple Road and A626 Stockport Road meet
- HGV share 1.1% of vehicle miles
- Traffic since 2019 0.0% same count points
- Collisions, 2021 to 2025 45 26.0 per 100m vehicle miles
How busy is the A626?
On an average day in 2025, 9,919 vehicles passed each point on the A626, counting both directions. The busiest section is Junction where A626, A6188 and Spring Gardens Meet to Junction where A626 Marple Road and A626 Stockport Road meet (Stockport), with 14,783 a day; the quietest listed is A57 to Cote Green Rd, with 5,066.
Busiest sections, 2025
Junction where A626, A6188 and Spring Gardens Meet to Junction where A626 Marple Road and A626 Stockport Road meet carries 1.5 times the road’s average flow.
| Section | Vehicles a day |
|---|---|
| Junction where A626, A6188 and Spring Gardens Meet to Junction where A626 Marple Road and A626 Stockport Road meet Stockport · 2.5 mi · HGVs 1.2% | 14,783 |
| Cote Green Rd to A627 Stockport · 2.8 mi · HGVs 0.7% | 12,952 |
| A57 to Cote Green Rd Derbyshire, Stockport · 4.6 mi · HGVs 1.4% | 5,066 |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
Route
Derbyshire to Stockport · 10.0 miles
A626 traffic and collisions by section
4 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 | A57 to Cote Green RdDerbyshire, Stockport | 5,066 | 11 |
| 2 | Cote Green Rd to A627Stockport | 12,952 | 10 |
| 3 | At A627Stockport | 26,658 | fewer than 3 |
| 4 | Junction where A626, A6188 and Spring Gardens Meet to Junction where A626 Marple Road and A626 Stockport Road meetStockport | 14,783 | 22 |
Vehicles a day is the average daily flow in 2025. “Since 2019” compares the same count points. Collisions are those with the A626 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.
A626 traffic by vehicle type
Cars and taxis make up 83.9% of the vehicle miles on the A626. HGVs account for 1.1%.
Vehicle mix, 2025
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
HGV share of traffic
| Year | HGV share |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 2.6% |
| 2001 | 2.5% |
| 2002 | 2.2% |
| 2003 | 2.3% |
| 2004 | 2.4% |
| 2005 | 2.0% |
| 2006 | 2.1% |
| 2007 | 2.0% |
| 2008 | 1.8% |
| 2009 | 1.7% |
| 2010 | 1.7% |
| 2011 | 1.7% |
| 2012 | 1.7% |
| 2013 | 1.7% |
| 2014 | 1.7% |
| 2015 | 1.7% |
| 2016 | 1.6% |
| 2017 | 1.7% |
| 2018 | 1.8% |
| 2019 | 1.5% |
| 2020 | 1.7% |
| 2021 | 1.7% |
| 2022 | 1.6% |
| 2023 | 1.3% |
| 2024 | 1.1% |
| 2025 | 1.1% |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
A626 traffic trend
Traffic on the A626 came to 36.2 million vehicle miles in 2025. At the count points present in both years, it is about the same as in 2019, before the pandemic, and up 2.6% on 2015.
Vehicle miles a year
Like for like, traffic is up 1.6% on 2000.
| Year | Vehicle miles |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 58m |
| 2001 | 60m |
| 2002 | 56m |
| 2003 | 55m |
| 2004 | 55m |
| 2005 | 54m |
| 2006 | 53m |
| 2007 | 54m |
| 2008 | 53m |
| 2009 | 54m |
| 2010 | 54m |
| 2011 | 54m |
| 2012 | 54m |
| 2013 | 53m |
| 2014 | 55m |
| 2015 | 56m |
| 2016 | 56m |
| 2017 | 52m |
| 2018 | 52m |
| 2019 | 36m |
| 2020 | 28m |
| 2021 | 32m |
| 2022 | 34m |
| 2023 | 34m |
| 2024 | 36m |
| 2025 | 36m |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
Average daily flow
| Year | Vehicles a day |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 12,322 |
| 2001 | 12,791 |
| 2002 | 12,456 |
| 2003 | 12,219 |
| 2004 | 12,257 |
| 2005 | 12,100 |
| 2006 | 11,893 |
| 2007 | 11,912 |
| 2008 | 11,894 |
| 2009 | 12,041 |
| 2010 | 12,034 |
| 2011 | 12,107 |
| 2012 | 11,971 |
| 2013 | 11,839 |
| 2014 | 12,181 |
| 2015 | 12,385 |
| 2016 | 12,380 |
| 2017 | 11,527 |
| 2018 | 11,477 |
| 2019 | 9,920 |
| 2020 | 7,669 |
| 2021 | 8,780 |
| 2022 | 9,415 |
| 2023 | 9,424 |
| 2024 | 9,879 |
| 2025 | 9,919 |
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, 1 of the 5 count points were counted; DfT estimated the rest from earlier counts and local trends.
A626 collisions
Police recorded 45 collisions with the A626 as the first road from 2021 to 2025, 16 of them fatal or serious. That is 26.0 per 100 million vehicle miles, lower than the 31.5 for all A-roads in Great Britain. On average there were 0.9 a year for each mile of road.
Reported collisions by year
Down 50.0% from 2021 to 2025.
| Year | Collisions |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 14 |
| 2022 | 6 |
| 2023 | 6 |
| 2024 | 12 |
| 2025 | 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 |
|---|---|
| Junction where A626, A6188 and Spring Gardens Meet to Junction where A626 Marple Road and A626 Stockport Road meet Stockport · 22 collisions | 33.1 |
| A57 to Cote Green Rd Derbyshire, Stockport · 11 collisions | 26.9 |
| Cote Green Rd to A627 Stockport · 10 collisions | 16.5 |
Source:DfT STATS19,UK Motoring analysis 2021 to 2025 Updated
A further 17 collisions were recorded at junctions where the A626 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 A626
In route order. Each is the highway authority DfT files the count points under.
- Derbyshire
- Stockport
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 | 5 count points in 2025 | 15 September 2026 |
| Reported collisions | Road safety open data (STATS19) Department for Transport Derived statistics UK Motoring | 2021 to 2025 | 45 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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