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A724 traffic and collisions
The A724 is an A-road of 8.4 miles, in South Lanarkshire. This page covers its traffic at 9 DfT count points since 2000 and the collisions police recorded on it.
- Traffic in 2025 39m vehicle miles
- Average daily traffic 12,712 vehicles a day, both directions
- Busiest section 15,814 A749 to A724
- HGV share 1.4% of vehicle miles
- Traffic since 2019 +0.8% same count points
- Collisions, 2021 to 2025 51 28.3 per 100m vehicle miles
How busy is the A724?
On an average day in 2025, 12,712 vehicles passed each point on the A724, counting both directions. The busiest section is A749 to A724 (South Lanarkshire), with 15,814 a day; the quietest listed is BLANTYRE FARM ROAD to HALLSIDE BOULEVARD, with 8,437.
Busiest sections, 2025
A749 to A724 carries 1.2 times the road’s average flow.
| Section | Vehicles a day |
|---|---|
| A749 to A724 South Lanarkshire · 1.6 mi · HGVs 1.7% | 15,814 |
| HALLSIDE BOULEVARD to A763 South Lanarkshire · 1.9 mi · HGVs 1.0% | 14,094 |
| B755 Wellhall Rd to A725 South Lanarkshire · 1.4 mi · HGVs 1.4% | 12,569 |
| A725 to BLANTYRE FARM ROAD South Lanarkshire · 1.2 mi · HGVs 1.0% | 12,285 |
| B755 to A723 South Lanarkshire · 0.7 mi · HGVs 0.5% | 10,916 |
| BLANTYRE FARM ROAD to HALLSIDE BOULEVARD South Lanarkshire · 1.2 mi · HGVs 3.2% | 8,437 |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
Route
In South Lanarkshire · 8.4 miles
A724 traffic and collisions by section
7 sections between junctions, in route order. Each is the average of its DfT count points, weighted by length. 2 short link roads and spurs (0.3 miles) count in the road’s totals but are not listed.
Sections Tap a column heading to sort
| # | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | B755 to A723South Lanarkshire | 10,916 | fewer than 3 |
| 2 | Lorne St to B755 Wellhall RoadSouth Lanarkshire | 11,194 | 4 |
| 3 | B755 Wellhall Rd to A725South Lanarkshire | 12,569 | 14 |
| 4 | A725 to BLANTYRE FARM ROADSouth Lanarkshire | 12,285 | 4 |
| 5 | BLANTYRE FARM ROAD to HALLSIDE BOULEVARDSouth Lanarkshire | 8,437 | fewer than 3 |
| 6 | HALLSIDE BOULEVARD to A763South Lanarkshire | 14,094 | 12 |
| 7 | A749 to A724South Lanarkshire | 15,814 | 9 |
Vehicles a day is the average daily flow in 2025. “Since 2019” compares the same count points. Collisions are those with the A724 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.
A724 traffic by vehicle type
Cars and taxis make up 82.2% of the vehicle miles on the A724. HGVs account for 1.4%, rising to 3.2% on BLANTYRE FARM ROAD to HALLSIDE BOULEVARD.
Vehicle mix, 2025
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
HGV share of traffic
| Year | HGV share |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 4.5% |
| 2001 | 4.4% |
| 2002 | 4.1% |
| 2003 | 4.6% |
| 2004 | 4.9% |
| 2005 | 4.7% |
| 2006 | 4.9% |
| 2007 | 4.9% |
| 2008 | 4.3% |
| 2009 | 4.3% |
| 2010 | 4.2% |
| 2011 | 4.3% |
| 2012 | 4.0% |
| 2013 | 4.2% |
| 2014 | 4.3% |
| 2015 | 4.2% |
| 2016 | 4.3% |
| 2017 | 4.3% |
| 2018 | 2.5% |
| 2019 | 2.4% |
| 2020 | 2.8% |
| 2021 | 2.7% |
| 2022 | 2.7% |
| 2023 | 2.1% |
| 2024 | 2.1% |
| 2025 | 1.4% |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
A724 traffic trend
Traffic on the A724 came to 39 million vehicle miles in 2025. At the count points present in both years, it is up 0.8% on 2019, before the pandemic, and down 20.3% on 2015.
Vehicle miles a year
Like for like, traffic is down 13.4% on 2000.
| Year | Vehicle miles |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 42m |
| 2001 | 41m |
| 2002 | 42m |
| 2003 | 39m |
| 2004 | 39m |
| 2005 | 44m |
| 2006 | 46m |
| 2007 | 45m |
| 2008 | 46m |
| 2009 | 47m |
| 2010 | 47m |
| 2011 | 47m |
| 2012 | 46m |
| 2013 | 46m |
| 2014 | 47m |
| 2015 | 48m |
| 2016 | 49m |
| 2017 | 49m |
| 2018 | 39m |
| 2019 | 39m |
| 2020 | 30m |
| 2021 | 33m |
| 2022 | 36m |
| 2023 | 36m |
| 2024 | 37m |
| 2025 | 39m |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
Average daily flow
| Year | Vehicles a day |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 13,893 |
| 2001 | 13,811 |
| 2002 | 13,964 |
| 2003 | 14,071 |
| 2004 | 14,179 |
| 2005 | 14,034 |
| 2006 | 14,756 |
| 2007 | 14,487 |
| 2008 | 14,959 |
| 2009 | 15,177 |
| 2010 | 15,110 |
| 2011 | 15,163 |
| 2012 | 14,900 |
| 2013 | 14,914 |
| 2014 | 15,273 |
| 2015 | 15,425 |
| 2016 | 15,810 |
| 2017 | 15,840 |
| 2018 | 12,535 |
| 2019 | 12,722 |
| 2020 | 9,847 |
| 2021 | 10,814 |
| 2022 | 11,583 |
| 2023 | 11,791 |
| 2024 | 11,966 |
| 2025 | 12,712 |
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 (85.7% of today’s road for 2019). In 2025, 2 of the 9 count points were counted; DfT estimated the rest from earlier counts and local trends.
A724 collisions
Police recorded 51 collisions with the A724 as the first road from 2021 to 2025, 21 of them fatal or serious. That is 28.3 per 100 million vehicle miles, lower than the 31.5 for all A-roads in Great Britain. On average there were 1.2 a year for each mile of road.
Reported collisions by year
About the same in 2025 as in 2021.
| Year | Slight | Fatal or serious |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 6 | 3 |
| 2022 | 5 | 5 |
| 2023 | 6 | 4 |
| 2024 | 9 | 4 |
| 2025 | 4 | 5 |
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 |
|---|---|
| B755 Wellhall Rd to A725 South Lanarkshire · 14 collisions | 45.0 |
| HALLSIDE BOULEVARD to A763 South Lanarkshire · 12 collisions | 32.8 |
Source:DfT STATS19,UK Motoring analysis 2021 to 2025 Updated
A further 10 collisions were recorded at junctions where the A724 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 A724
In route order. Each is the highway authority DfT files the count points under.
- South Lanarkshire
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 | 51 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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