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Location from the National Highways junction reference. Nearest towns: West Bromwich, Oldbury, Birmingham, Walsall.
Wider area: counting every road within 3 miles — local streets, A-roads, everything — 4,365 collisions are on record, 33 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 M5 itself, within 2 miles of J1. 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 M5 J1 → 8 of 32 junctions on the M5 · see where it ranks nationallyM5 J1 is at West Bromwich & Handsworth. National Highways signs it as West Bromwich. The nearest town is West Bromwich.
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Police STATS19 records show 59 collisions on the M5 within 2 miles of J1, including 0 fatal and 12 serious. Counting every road in the area, 4,365 collisions are recorded within 3 miles. That ranks it 226 of 554 UK junctions we hold collision records for.
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