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Location from the National Highways junction reference. Nearest towns: Leyland, Chorley, Preston, Darwen.
Wider area: counting every road within 3 miles — local streets, A-roads, everything — 977 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 M61 itself, within 2 miles of J9. 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 M61 J9 → 5 of 8 junctions on the M61 · see where it ranks nationallyM61 J9 is at Bamber Bridge & Clayton-le-Woods. National Highways signs it as M65 Interchange. The nearest town is Leyland.
Live incidents for the whole M61 are listed on the M61 traffic page, updated every 5 minutes from National Highways.
Police STATS19 records show 54 collisions on the M61 within 2 miles of J9, including 1 fatal and 20 serious. Counting every road in the area, 977 collisions are recorded within 3 miles. That ranks it 63 of 554 UK junctions we hold collision records for.
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