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Location from the National Highways junction reference. Nearest towns: Wakefield, Ossett, Normanton, Morley.
Wider area: counting every road within 3 miles — local streets, A-roads, everything — 1,390 collisions are on record, 13 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 M62 itself, within 2 miles of J29. 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 M62 J29 → 2 of 29 junctions on the M62 · see where it ranks nationallyM62 J29 is at Lofthouse & Rothwell. National Highways signs it as Lofthouse M1. The nearest town is Wakefield.
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Police STATS19 records show 103 collisions on the M62 within 2 miles of J29, including 3 fatal and 21 serious. Counting every road in the area, 1,390 collisions are recorded within 3 miles. That ranks it 10 of 554 UK junctions we hold collision records for.
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