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M1 J42 at 06:18 on Friday 9 October: closure planned from 20:00.
Straight from National Highways, re-checked every 3 minutes while this page is open.
Location from the National Highways junction reference. Nearest towns: Wakefield, Ossett, Normanton, Dewsbury.
Wider area: counting every road within 3 miles — local streets, A-roads, everything — 1,319 collisions are on record, 17 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 J42. 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 J42 → 23 of 53 junctions on the M1 · see where it ranks nationallyM1 J42 is at Lofthouse & Rothwell. National Highways signs it as Lofthouse M62. The nearest town is Wakefield.
No — as of 06:18 National Highways list nothing at M1 J42. This page re-checks their live feed every few minutes, 24 hours a day.
Not right now. Planned: M1 northbound Jct 43 to M621 Jct 7 carriageway closure, from 20:00 until 06:00 Sat 10 Oct.
Police STATS19 records show 37 collisions on the M1 within 2 miles of J42, including 1 fatal and 9 serious. Counting every road in the area, 1,319 collisions are recorded within 3 miles. That ranks it 212 of 554 UK junctions we hold collision records for.
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