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Location from the National Highways junction reference. Nearest towns: Barnsley, Ossett, Wakefield, Penistone.
Wider area: counting every road within 3 miles — local streets, A-roads, everything — 299 collisions are on record, 11 of them fatal. That figure follows how built-up the area is, so it is shown for context and is not what the ranking uses.
Department for Transport STATS19 police collision records on the M1 itself, within 2 miles of J38. This is the free summary — the full breakdown by severity, weather, road surface, time of day and individual record is in the blackspot report.
📊 Full collision analysis for M1 J38 → 15 of 53 junctions on the M1 · see where it ranks nationallyM1 J38 is at Wakefield & Woolley. National Highways signs it as Woolley Edge. The nearest town is Barnsley.
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Police STATS19 records show 32 collisions on the M1 within 2 miles of J38, including 2 fatal and 9 serious. Counting every road in the area, 299 collisions are recorded within 3 miles. That ranks it 130 of 554 UK junctions we hold collision records for.
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