Updating live · police records DfT STATS19

Where crashes keep happening on the M5

Name: M5 accident blackspots — collision hotspots
Creator: UK Traffic Updates
License: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Police collision records matched to live National Highways incidents at the junctions where they cluster. Historical evidence and what is happening right now, on one map. Free to search.

4,342 People killed

63,536Seriously hurt

393,011Casualties

304,156Collisions

11,438Junctions

3,014Roads

The ten worst roads

Ranked by recorded harm — a fatal collision counts for far more than a shunt

A38 100 4,618 casualties · 60 killed 3,421collisions A6 100 3,623 casualties · 50 killed 2,751collisions A5 100 3,268 casualties · 70 killed 2,568collisions A1 100 3,911 casualties · 52 killed 2,880collisions A40 99 3,196 casualties · 48 killed 2,485collisions A23 99 3,871 casualties · 22 killed 3,243collisions A4 99 3,606 casualties · 39 killed 3,001collisions A41 99 3,301 casualties · 45 killed 2,547collisions M6 99 3,255 casualties · 64 killed 2,088collisions A259 99 2,986 casualties · 23 killed 2,259collisions

Score is this road's position among UK roads with 100+ recorded collisions, by severity-weighted harm. 100 is the worst on record. The same score appears on each road's own page, so the two can never disagree.

How severe

Police-recorded outcomes

4,342Fatal · 1.4%

63,536Serious · 20.9%

236,278Slight · 77.7%

393,011 People hurt

Every recorded collision

4,318 collision hotspots from 605,465 police records · sized by severity · tap any point

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What happens

Most common incident types

💥

306,219

Collision · 99%

🚦

1,526

Congestion · 0%

📋

977

Other · 0%

🚗

769

Breakdown · 0%

🚫

381

Closure · 0%

🌧️

103

Weather · 0%

🔥

Fire · 0%

Flagged junctions

11,438 found

Find a road

Region

All UK (11438) South East (531) South West (544) Midlands (768) North West (252) North East (301) East (342) London (469)

Severity

All (11438) Severe (6281) Warning (5157)

Source

All combined Police only National Highways only

Type

All Fatal Collisions With casualties

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Where this comes from

Two official sources, combined

304,156Police collision recordsDfT STATS19

310,013Live incidentsNational Highways

174London disruptionsTransport for London

614,343Combined recordsEverything above

About this data. Collision records are published by the Department for Transport under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Live incident data is supplied by National Highways and Transport for London under licence. Blackspot ranking is our own calculation from that data, not an official government safety assessment. © 2026 UK Traffic Updates.

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