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Location from the National Highways junction reference. Nearest towns: Penrith, Shap, Appleby-in-Westmorland.
Wider area: counting every road within 3 miles — local streets, A-roads, everything — 152 collisions are on record, 2 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 J40. 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 J40 → 42 of 49 junctions on the M6 · see where it ranks nationallyM6 J40 is at Penrith & Appleby. National Highways signs it as Penrith. The nearest town is Penrith.
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Police STATS19 records show 10 collisions on the M6 within 2 miles of J40, including 1 fatal and 1 serious. Counting every road in the area, 152 collisions are recorded within 3 miles. That ranks it 418 of 554 UK junctions we hold collision records for.
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