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A1 Accidents Today — Live Corridor Watch

Quick answer: 3 news reports naming the A1 in the last 24 hours, 6 in the last 7 days; 2 official live incidents on or near the road right now; 2 geocoded reports within 10 km. The A1 is the longest numbered road in the UK, about 410 miles from London through Stevenage, Peterborough, Newark, Doncaster, Newcastle and Berwick to Edinburgh, with long stretches upgraded to the A1(M) motorway.

Reports naming the A1

last 24 hours

Last 7 days

headline mentions

Official incidents now

within 10 km of the road

660

Kilometres

22 waypoints · City of London → Edinburgh

— zones in view

A1 corridor Accident report · last 24h Official traffic incident Toggle CAMERAS on the map for live views

Headlines

Latest reports naming the A1

News items from the last 7 days whose headline names the road, country-matched. Every item links to the publisher.

road What we know about separate County Durham A1(M) crash and incident which closed road - The Northern Echo www.thenorthernecho.co.uk · 20 hr ago

road A1(M) LIVE - Road closed after 'serious' crash and second incident in County Durham overnight - The Northern Echo www.thenorthernecho.co.uk · 23 hr ago

road A1(M) RECAP - 'Serious' crash and second incident in County Durham overnight - The Northern Echo www.thenorthernecho.co.uk · 23 hr ago

road A1 crash leaves lane closed with severe delays and debris on road - The Northern Echo www.thenorthernecho.co.uk · 2 days ago

road Man charged with murder over fatal A1(M) crash - BBC www.bbc.co.uk · 3 days ago

road A1(M) closed RECAP: Darlington road now reopen after 'serious collision' www.gazettelive.co.uk · 7 days ago

Official feeds

Live incidents on or near the A1 right now

Transport-authority and traffic-data incidents within 10 km of the centreline, nearest first.

Source	Area	Details	km from road
TfL	London	—	5.7
TfL	London	—	9.5

Geocoded

Accident reports placed within 10 km of the A1 (24 h)

City-level placements from the live feed — the dot marks the city named in the headline, not the exact carriageway.

London · 2.2 km North London married couple died in crash after their car burst into flames - My London 17 hr ago

London · 2.2 km North London married couple died in rash after their car burst into flames - My London 17 hr ago

Official DOT feeds · live snapshots

Live traffic cameras along the A1

Public traffic-camera snapshots nearest to the latest geocoded reports on this page, straight from the transport authority. Images refresh on their own schedule (seconds to minutes); a camera is picked by distance and is not necessarily pointed at the incident.

Traffic camera: Farringdon Rd/Cowcross St — **Farringdon Rd/Cowcross St**TfL JamCams (London) · 0.4 km from: City of London

Traffic camera: Archway Rd/Gladsmuir Rd — **Archway Rd/Gladsmuir Rd**TfL JamCams (London) · 0.5 km from: Archway

Traffic camera: A1 Barnet Wy/Barnet Ln — **A1 Barnet Wy/Barnet Ln**TfL JamCams (London) · 13.2 km from: Hatfield

Traffic camera: Grt Cambridge Rd/Bullsmore Ln — **Grt Cambridge Rd/Bullsmore Ln**TfL JamCams (London) · 228 km from centre

Traffic camera: A10/Carterhatch Lane — **A10/Carterhatch Lane**TfL JamCams (London) · 230 km from centre

Traffic camera: Edgware Way / Broadfields Ave — **Edgware Way / Broadfields Ave**TfL JamCams (London) · 230 km from centre

Traffic camera: A1 Barnet Wy/A41 Edgware Wy — **A1 Barnet Wy/A41 Edgware Wy**TfL JamCams (London) · 230 km from centre

Traffic camera: A10 Grt Cambridge Rd/A110 S bury Rd — **A10 Grt Cambridge Rd/A110 S bury Rd**TfL JamCams (London) · 231 km from centre

Camera data: Powered by TfL Open Data (all 890 cameras). Snapshots are served by the authority and are not stored by this site. Cameras marked Live video play inline; the rest are still images refreshed by the authority.

Historical data

A1 accident history

Recorded injury collisions (DfT STATS19 2021–2025) on this road by year, severity, road user, place and time of day.

Questions

A1 — FAQ

Is there an accident on the A1 today?

Yes — 3 news reports naming the A1 reached our feeds in the last 24 hours (listed below with source and time). Official live incidents inside the corridor are shown separately when a transport authority publishes them.

Where does this A1 page get its data?

Three places, none of them estimated: (1) news headlines from GDELT, Google News RSS and GNews that name the road, country-matched so the British M1 and the Pakistani M-1 are never mixed up; (2) official incident feeds already on this site (511 systems, state DOT ArcGIS layers, city feeds, MapQuest) filtered to points within 10 km of the road's centreline; (3) the live traffic-camera index for cameras nearest to each waypoint.

How is 'near the A1' defined?

The road is stored as 22 waypoints (City of London, Archway, Hatfield, Stevenage…). A report or incident counts as on the corridor when it lies within 10 km of the line between those waypoints. City-level geocoded reports are approximate by nature — they mark the city, not the exact carriageway.

What should I do if I am in a crash on the A1?

Get to a safe place away from live lanes if you can, call 999, and give the direction, junction or mile marker. Do not stand between vehicles or on the hard shoulder longer than necessary. This page is informational and updates every 15 minutes; it is not an emergency service.

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Corridor pages are computed from feeds already on this site (official incidents, news, cameras) — nothing here is estimated. Country context: United Kingdom accidents today.