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Location from the National Highways junction reference. Nearest towns: Strood, Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham.
Wider area: counting every road within 3 miles — local streets, A-roads, everything — 1,684 collisions are on record, 18 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 M2 itself, within 2 miles of J2. 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 M2 J2 → 3 of 7 junctions on the M2 · see where it ranks nationallyM2 J2 is at Rochester & Rainham. National Highways signs it as Rochester. The nearest town is Strood.
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Police STATS19 records show 83 collisions on the M2 within 2 miles of J2, including 1 fatal and 13 serious. Counting every road in the area, 1,684 collisions are recorded within 3 miles. That ranks it 87 of 554 UK junctions we hold collision records for.
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