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M6 J28 at 14:23 on Wednesday 14 October: nothing reported at this junction — live National Highways updates every few minutes.
Straight from National Highways, re-checked every 3 minutes while this page is open.
Location from the National Highways junction reference. Nearest towns: Leyland, Chorley, Preston, Blackburn.
Wider area: counting every road within 3 miles — local streets, A-roads, everything — 1,074 collisions are on record, 11 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 M6 itself, within 2 miles of J28. 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 M6 J28 → 17 of 49 junctions on the M6 · see where it ranks nationallyM6 J28 is at Leyland & Euxton. National Highways signs it as Leyland. The nearest town is Leyland.
No — as of 14:23 National Highways list nothing at M6 J28. This page re-checks their live feed every few minutes, 24 hours a day.
No closure is listed at M6 J28 as of 14:23.
Police STATS19 records show 55 collisions on the M6 within 2 miles of J28, including 2 fatal and 4 serious. Counting every road in the area, 1,074 collisions are recorded within 3 miles. That ranks it 152 of 554 UK junctions we hold collision records for.
Live incidents, roadworks and delays for the whole M6, updated every 5 minutes from National Highways.
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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.