UK Roads - Traffic & Cameras

The ONLY app to show live traffic incidents, roadworks and 4,700+ cameras covering England, Scotland and Wales. One time purchase, no subscription required. The app was updated during December 2025.

KEY FEATURES

Live traffic incidents, roadworks and traffic cams covering:

- England: Traffic England for all motorways and main trunk roads: 2,000+ cameras

- Scotland: Traffic Scotland: 304 cameras

- Wales: Traffic Wales: 250 cameras

- London: TfL: 911 VIDEO cameras (currently not working due to TfL cyber attack)

- Manchester: 63 cameras

- Tyne & Wear: 261 cameras

- Essex: 35 cameras

- Derbyshire: 8 cameras

- Tamar Crossing Bridge: 2 cameras

- Tamar Torpoint Ferry: 2 cameras

- Today screen widget to show at a glance the nearest current traffic incidents

- Optimised for all iPhone and iPad models.

- Dark Mode throughout the app (iOS13+).

- Sharing: you can easily share traffic camera images (and videos for TfL cameras) with your Twitter followers, Facebook friends or via email etc.

LIST VIEW

- Shows current incidents in order of distance from your current location (closest incidents are shown first).

- Each incident is colour-coded to indicate the severity of the delay.

- You can quickly see the distance the incident is from you, the road name,

the type of incident and when the incident info was updated.

- The detail view for each incident shows the description of the incident together with a map showing the exact location of the incident.

MAP VIEW

- Shows current incidents and traffic cams.

- Each incident is colour coded as well as being represented by an icon showing the incident type.

- Clicking on an incident displays more detail right there on the map.

- The map view can also show live traffic camera images.

TRAFFIC CAMS

- Toggle show/hide the cameras on the map.

- Touch a camera icon on the map to view a live camera image.

TRAFFIC CAM FAVOURITES

- Save your favourite cameras for quick access to see how clear/congested your usual routes are.

TODAY WIDGET

- Shows at a glance the nearest current traffic incidents without launching the app.

PERSONALISE

- Toggle traffic information on the map.

- Toggle auto refresh of camera images (will refresh every 10 seconds).

- Toggle always show map on app launch.

- You can configure which incidents are displayed according to the severity of the delay caused.

- Miles or Kilometres setting.

ICONS AND COLOUR CODING

- The icons on the map show the type of incident so you can see at a glance both the incident type and severity (indicated by the colour of the icon).

The incident icons currently available are:

- Accident: ambulance icon

- Congestion: standard congestion sign (3 cars) icon

- Breakdown: car with bonnet raised icon

- Signal Failure: traffic signal icon

- Event (such as football match, concert): a calendar event icon

- Snow or flooding: the appropriate icon

- Other/Hazard/Incident: standard hazard (exclamation mark) icon

Incidents are colour coded accruing to severity:

- Red: severe; delays of one hour or more, or road/exit closed

- Orange: medium; delays 15 minutes or more

- Green: minor; delays less than 15 minutes

CONTACT

- Email me for feature requests/bug reports etc. I would love to hear from you!

- Follow @ukroadsapp on Twitter for latest news on the app.