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Recorded collisions · 24 combined incidents · On the M42 within 2 miles of J5
Wider area: counting every road within 3 miles — local streets, A-roads, everything — 320 collisions are on record, 10 of them fatal. That figure tracks how built-up the area is rather than the road, so it is context only and the score below does not use it.
Ranked 418 of 554 UK junctions on record by recorded harm · 10 of 11 on the M42.
A ranking of our own records, not a risk-per-vehicle measure and not an official safety assessment. Collisions are weighted by outcome: one fatal counts for 50 slight collisions, one serious for 8.
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A full road safety report for M42 — every collision, severity split, conditions and junction ranking, formatted to print or file.
View road safety report →Data Sources: DfT STATS19 police-recorded collision data and National Highways incident data, both under Open Government Licence v3.0. This is historical DfT statistical data — not an official police report. Blackspot classification is algorithmic and not an official safety assessment. © 2026 UK Traffic Updates.