Trunk A-road
A80 traffic and collisions
The A80 is a trunk A-road of 7.6 miles, from North Lanarkshire to Glasgow City. This page covers its traffic at 11 DfT count points since 2000 and the collisions police recorded on it.
- Traffic in 2025 25m vehicle miles
- Average daily traffic 9,096 vehicles a day, both directions
- Busiest section 12,730 A752/A80 Junction to A806/A80 Roundabout
- HGV share 2.1% of vehicle miles
- Traffic since 2019 −4.2% same count points
- Collisions, 2021 to 2025 32 26.4 per 100m vehicle miles
How busy is the A80?
On an average day in 2025, 9,096 vehicles passed each point on the A80, counting both directions. The busiest section is A752/A80 Junction to A806/A80 Roundabout (North Lanarkshire), with 12,730 a day; the quietest listed is A752/A80 Junction Nr Sports Facility to A752/A80 Junction, with 5,628.
Busiest sections, 2025
A752/A80 Junction to A806/A80 Roundabout carries 1.4 times the road’s average flow.
| Section | Vehicles a day |
|---|---|
| A752/A80 Junction to A806/A80 Roundabout North Lanarkshire · 0.7 mi · HGVs 1.0% | 12,730 |
| Hornshill Farm Rd to M8 North Lanarkshire, Glasgow City · 2.5 mi · HGVs 2.0% | 10,579 |
| M8 to A8 Glasgow City · 1.0 mi · HGVs 1.7% | 7,837 |
| M73/A80 Roundabout to A752/A80 Junction Nr Sports Facility North Lanarkshire · 1.5 mi · HGVs 1.5% | 6,515 |
| A752/A80 Junction Nr Sports Facility to A752/A80 Junction North Lanarkshire · 0.7 mi · HGVs 1.6% | 5,628 |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
Route
North Lanarkshire to Glasgow City · 7.6 miles
A80 traffic and collisions by section
8 sections between junctions, in route order. Each is the average of its DfT count points, weighted by length. 2 short link roads and spurs (0.2 miles) count in the road’s totals but are not listed.
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| # | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A80 Roundabout connecting to M73 Slip Road to Gartferry Road (Minor Road)/A80 JunctionNorth Lanarkshire | 9,974 | 0 |
| 2 | Junction A80/Gartferry Road (Minor Road) to M73/A80 RoundaboutNorth Lanarkshire | 9,690 | 0 |
| 3 | M73/A80 Roundabout to A752/A80 Junction Nr Sports FacilityNorth Lanarkshire | 6,515 | 4 |
| 4 | A752/A80 Junction Nr Sports Facility to A752/A80 JunctionNorth Lanarkshire | 5,628 | 0 |
| 5 | A752/A80 Junction to A806/A80 RoundaboutNorth Lanarkshire | 12,730 | 4 |
| 6 | M80 to Hornshill Farm RdNorth Lanarkshire | 8,540 | fewer than 3 |
| 7 | Hornshill Farm Rd to M8North Lanarkshire, Glasgow City | 10,579 | 13 |
| 8 | M8 to A8Glasgow City | 7,837 | 10 |
Vehicles a day is the average daily flow in 2025. “Since 2019” compares the same count points. Collisions are those with the A80 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.
A80 traffic by vehicle type
Cars and taxis make up 81.7% of the vehicle miles on the A80. HGVs account for 2.1%.
Vehicle mix, 2025
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
HGV share of traffic
| Year | HGV share |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 11.2% |
| 2001 | 10.2% |
| 2002 | 9.4% |
| 2003 | 9.7% |
| 2004 | 9.8% |
| 2005 | 10.8% |
| 2006 | 10.9% |
| 2007 | 10.9% |
| 2008 | 10.3% |
| 2009 | 9.6% |
| 2010 | 10.0% |
| 2011 | 10.0% |
| 2012 | 9.9% |
| 2013 | 10.2% |
| 2014 | 6.7% |
| 2015 | 6.7% |
| 2016 | 4.9% |
| 2017 | 4.7% |
| 2018 | 4.8% |
| 2019 | 4.7% |
| 2020 | 5.4% |
| 2021 | 4.5% |
| 2022 | 4.3% |
| 2023 | 4.6% |
| 2024 | 2.1% |
| 2025 | 2.1% |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
A80 traffic trend
Traffic on the A80 came to 25.2 million vehicle miles in 2025. At the count points present in both years, it is down 4.2% on 2019, before the pandemic, and down 0.8% on 2015.
Vehicle miles a year
Like for like, traffic is down 1.2% on 2000.
| Year | Vehicle miles |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 226m |
| 2001 | 233m |
| 2002 | 236m |
| 2003 | 243m |
| 2004 | 247m |
| 2005 | 236m |
| 2006 | 245m |
| 2007 | 254m |
| 2008 | 266m |
| 2009 | 265m |
| 2010 | 256m |
| 2011 | 246m |
| 2012 | 189m |
| 2013 | 190m |
| 2014 | 55m |
| 2015 | 57m |
| 2016 | 26m |
| 2017 | 25m |
| 2018 | 26m |
| 2019 | 26m |
| 2020 | 20m |
| 2021 | 22m |
| 2022 | 24m |
| 2023 | 25m |
| 2024 | 25m |
| 2025 | 25m |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
Average daily flow
| Year | Vehicles a day |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 43,270 |
| 2001 | 44,632 |
| 2002 | 45,137 |
| 2003 | 46,612 |
| 2004 | 47,297 |
| 2005 | 45,151 |
| 2006 | 46,865 |
| 2007 | 48,636 |
| 2008 | 51,047 |
| 2009 | 50,754 |
| 2010 | 49,106 |
| 2011 | 47,143 |
| 2012 | 42,197 |
| 2013 | 42,330 |
| 2014 | 21,369 |
| 2015 | 22,174 |
| 2016 | 10,324 |
| 2017 | 9,764 |
| 2018 | 9,745 |
| 2019 | 9,842 |
| 2020 | 7,589 |
| 2021 | 8,376 |
| 2022 | 8,990 |
| 2023 | 8,966 |
| 2024 | 9,032 |
| 2025 | 9,096 |
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 (51.3% of today’s road for 2019). In 2025, 0 of the 11 count points were counted; DfT estimated the rest from earlier counts and local trends.
A80 collisions
Police recorded 32 collisions with the A80 as the first road from 2021 to 2025, 8 of them fatal or serious. That is 26.4 per 100 million vehicle miles, lower than the 31.5 for all A-roads in Great Britain. On average there were 0.8 a year for each mile of road.
Reported collisions by year
Down 25.0% from 2021 to 2025.
| Year | Collisions |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 4 |
| 2022 | 4 |
| 2023 | 11 |
| 2024 | 10 |
| 2025 | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|
| M8 to A8 Glasgow City · 10 collisions | 72.2 |
| Hornshill Farm Rd to M8 North Lanarkshire, Glasgow City · 13 collisions | 27.8 |
Source:DfT STATS19,UK Motoring analysis 2021 to 2025 Updated
A further 5 collisions were recorded at junctions where the A80 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 A80
In route order. Each is the highway authority DfT files the count points under.
- North Lanarkshire
- Glasgow City
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 | 32 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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