A-road
A909 traffic and collisions
The A909 is an A-road of 9.5 miles, in Fife. This page covers its traffic at 9 DfT count points since 2000 and the collisions police recorded on it.
- Traffic in 2025 18m vehicle miles
- Average daily traffic 5,135 vehicles a day, both directions
- Busiest section 13,950 Thistle St to A909
- HGV share 4.5% of vehicle miles
- Traffic since 2019 −0.7% same count points
- Collisions, 2021 to 2025 32 37.3 per 100m vehicle miles
How busy is the A909?
On an average day in 2025, 5,135 vehicles passed each point on the A909, counting both directions. The busiest section is Thistle St to A909 (Fife), with 13,950 a day; the quietest listed is C-road Dunearn to B9157, with 2,225.
Busiest sections, 2025
Thistle St to A909 carries 2.7 times the road’s average flow.
| Section | Vehicles a day |
|---|---|
| Thistle St to A909 Fife · 0.8 mi · HGVs 1.6% | 13,950 |
| B996 Great North Road to M90 Fife · 1.0 mi · HGVs 6.3% | 6,033 |
| B925 to A92 Fife · 1.4 mi · HGVs 5.6% | 5,472 |
| B9157 to B925 Fife · 1.4 mi · HGVs 7.1% | 4,764 |
| Gray Park, Cowdenbeath to B996 Great North Road Fife · 1.5 mi · HGVs 5.3% | 3,956 |
| B923 Kirkcaldy Road to C-road Dunearn Fife · 1.8 mi · HGVs 3.5% | 2,747 |
| C-road Dunearn to B9157 Fife · 1.1 mi · HGVs 5.9% | 2,225 |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
Route
In Fife · 9.5 miles
A909 traffic and collisions by section
9 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 | B923 Kirkcaldy Road to C-road DunearnFife | 2,747 | 5 |
| 2 | C-road Dunearn to B9157Fife | 2,225 | 3 |
| 3 | B9157 to B925Fife | 4,764 | 0 |
| 4 | B925 to A92Fife | 5,472 | 4 |
| 5 | A92 to Thistle StFife | 13,392 | 4 |
| 6 | Thistle St to A909Fife | 13,950 | 7 |
| 7 | Gray Park to B981 Lochgelly RoadFife | 4,194 | 0 |
| 8 | Gray Park, Cowdenbeath to B996 Great North RoadFife | 3,956 | 5 |
| 9 | B996 Great North Road to M90Fife | 6,033 | 4 |
Vehicles a day is the average daily flow in 2025. “Since 2019” compares the same count points. Collisions are those with the A909 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.
A909 traffic by vehicle type
Cars and taxis make up 72.3% of the vehicle miles on the A909. HGVs account for 4.5%, rising to 7.1% on B9157 to B925.
Vehicle mix, 2025
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
HGV share of traffic
| Year | HGV share |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 7.5% |
| 2001 | 6.0% |
| 2002 | 6.2% |
| 2003 | 6.0% |
| 2004 | 6.2% |
| 2005 | 4.8% |
| 2006 | 4.8% |
| 2007 | 5.2% |
| 2008 | 5.3% |
| 2009 | 5.1% |
| 2010 | 4.8% |
| 2011 | 4.8% |
| 2012 | 5.0% |
| 2013 | 5.1% |
| 2014 | 5.1% |
| 2015 | 5.3% |
| 2016 | 5.4% |
| 2017 | 5.5% |
| 2018 | 5.6% |
| 2019 | 5.0% |
| 2020 | 5.1% |
| 2021 | 5.0% |
| 2022 | 4.8% |
| 2023 | 4.6% |
| 2024 | 4.5% |
| 2025 | 4.5% |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
A909 traffic trend
Traffic on the A909 came to 17.8 million vehicle miles in 2025. At the count points present in both years, it is down 0.7% on 2019, before the pandemic, and about the same as in 2015.
Vehicle miles a year
Like for like, traffic is up 17.0% on 2000.
| Year | Vehicle miles |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 11m |
| 2001 | 11m |
| 2002 | 11m |
| 2003 | 12m |
| 2004 | 12m |
| 2005 | 12m |
| 2006 | 12m |
| 2007 | 12m |
| 2008 | 12m |
| 2009 | 12m |
| 2010 | 12m |
| 2011 | 13m |
| 2012 | 13m |
| 2013 | 12m |
| 2014 | 13m |
| 2015 | 13m |
| 2016 | 13m |
| 2017 | 13m |
| 2018 | 13m |
| 2019 | 18m |
| 2020 | 14m |
| 2021 | 16m |
| 2022 | 17m |
| 2023 | 17m |
| 2024 | 18m |
| 2025 | 18m |
Source:DfT,UK Motoring analysis 2000 to 2025 Updated
Average daily flow
| Year | Vehicles a day |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 3,513 |
| 2001 | 3,530 |
| 2002 | 3,610 |
| 2003 | 3,702 |
| 2004 | 3,760 |
| 2005 | 3,871 |
| 2006 | 3,982 |
| 2007 | 3,985 |
| 2008 | 3,872 |
| 2009 | 3,985 |
| 2010 | 3,988 |
| 2011 | 4,121 |
| 2012 | 4,059 |
| 2013 | 4,011 |
| 2014 | 4,110 |
| 2015 | 4,126 |
| 2016 | 4,234 |
| 2017 | 4,276 |
| 2018 | 4,295 |
| 2019 | 5,174 |
| 2020 | 4,156 |
| 2021 | 4,581 |
| 2022 | 4,929 |
| 2023 | 5,020 |
| 2024 | 5,088 |
| 2025 | 5,135 |
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, 0 of the 9 count points were counted; DfT estimated the rest from earlier counts and local trends.
A909 collisions
Police recorded 32 collisions with the A909 as the first road from 2021 to 2025, 16 of them fatal or serious, including 4 fatal. That is 37.3 per 100 million vehicle miles, higher than the 31.5 for all A-roads in Great Britain. On average there were 0.7 a year for each mile of road.
Reported collisions by year
Up 20.0% from 2021 to 2025.
| Year | Collisions |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 |
| 2022 | 9 |
| 2023 | 4 |
| 2024 | 8 |
| 2025 | 6 |
Source:DfT STATS19,UK Motoring analysis 2021 to 2025 Updated
A further 11 collisions were recorded at junctions where the A909 was the second road; they are not in the figures above. Fatal or serious uses DfT’s adjusted serious figures. 100.0% of the collisions could be placed on a section. How we count collisions
Council areas on the A909
In route order. Each is the highway authority DfT files the count points under.
- Fife
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 | 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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