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M181 traffic at 09:38 on Thursday 15 October: no major incidents reported — live National Highways updates every 5 minutes, 24/7.
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🟢 Clear · 🟡 Delays nearby · 🔴 Severe/Crash · Status labels: 💥 CRASH · ❌ CLOSED · 🐌 SLOW · 🚧 WORKS · ⚠️ HAZARD
A red or orange junction border marks a STATS19 collision blackspot. Tap any junction for its own page — live incidents and full collision history. Tap the funnel to filter the list above.
Based on DfT STATS19 police collision records. The M181 has 14 recorded collisions at 1 collision hotspot, involving 23 casualties (1 fatal). Take extra care here. Ranked by fatal, then serious collisions, then casualties - not by the number of collisions alone.
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Any M181 closure appears in the live feed above within minutes of National Highways reporting it, including tonight's overnight roadworks closures.
The live feed above shows every incident, delay, roadwork and overnight closure on the M181, updated every 5 minutes, 24 hours a day, from National Highways.
The M181 is typically busiest during morning rush hour (07:30–09:00) and evening rush hour (17:00–18:30) on weekdays.
Roadworks and overnight closures on the M181 are listed above and at /traffic/m181/roadworks/, taken from the National Highways daily closure report.
The M181 connects to: M180, A18.
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On a motorway? If you can, get onto the hard shoulder or into an emergency area, leave by the left-hand doors and wait behind the barrier. Stuck in a live lane: stay in the car with your seatbelt on and hazard lights on, and call 999.