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Location from the National Highways junction reference. Nearest towns: Hemel Hempstead, St Albans, Harpenden, Berkhamsted.
Wider area: counting every road within 3 miles — local streets, A-roads, everything — 952 collisions are on record, 19 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 J8. 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 J8 → 1 of 53 junctions on the M1 · see where it ranks nationallyM1 J8 is at Hemel Hempstead & Leverstock Green. National Highways signs it as Hemel Hempstead South. The nearest town is Hemel Hempstead.
Live incidents for the whole M1 are listed on the M1 traffic page, updated every 5 minutes from National Highways.
Police STATS19 records show 133 collisions on the M1 within 2 miles of J8, including 2 fatal and 23 serious. Counting every road in the area, 952 collisions are recorded within 3 miles. That ranks it 12 of 554 UK junctions we hold collision records for.
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