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Location from the National Highways junction reference. Nearest towns: Knowle, Dorridge, Solihull, Coleshill.
Wider area: counting every road within 3 miles — local streets, A-roads, everything — 320 collisions are on record, 10 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 M42 itself, within 2 miles of J5. 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 M42 J5 → 10 of 11 junctions on the M42 · see where it ranks nationallyM42 J5 is at Solihull & Knowle. National Highways signs it as Knowle. The nearest town is Knowle.
Live incidents for the whole M42 are listed on the M42 traffic page, updated every 5 minutes from National Highways.
Police STATS19 records show 24 collisions on the M42 within 2 miles of J5, including 0 fatal and 6 serious. Counting every road in the area, 320 collisions are recorded within 3 miles. That ranks it 418 of 554 UK junctions we hold collision records for.
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