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M5 Accidents Today — Live Corridor Watch

Quick answer: 0 news reports naming the M5 in the last 24 hours, 10 in the last 7 days; 0 official live incidents on or near the road right now; 0 geocoded reports within 12 km. The M5 is the 163-mile motorway from the M6 at West Bromwich through Worcester, Cheltenham, Bristol and Taunton to Exeter — the holiday route to the South West.

Reports naming the M5

last 24 hours

Last 7 days

headline mentions

Official incidents now

within 12 km of the road

262

Kilometres

7 waypoints · West Bromwich (J1) → Exeter (J31)

— zones in view

M5 corridor Accident report · last 24h Official traffic incident Toggle CAMERAS on the map for live views

Headlines

Latest reports naming the M5

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

road Man dies in M5 car and lorry crash near Halesowen - BBC www.bbc.co.uk · 4 days ago

road M5 tragedy as man dies in lorry crash near Birmingham - Birmingham Live www.birminghammail.co.uk · 4 days ago

road M5 reopens after late-night crash and car fire near Birmingham - Express and Star www.expressandstar.com · 4 days ago

road Man, 39, dies in M5 crash between car and lorry near Quinton - https://www.birmingham-now.co.uk/ www.birmingham-now.co.uk · 4 days ago

road M5 reopens after fatal crash and vehicle fire - https://www.birmingham-now.co.uk/ www.birmingham-now.co.uk · 4 days ago

road M5 shuts near Birmingham after serious car fire as police launch investigation - Birmingham Live www.birminghammail.co.uk · 4 days ago

road M5 serious crash live as motorway shuts near Birmingham for police investigation www.birminghammail.co.uk · 4 days ago

road M5 northbound remains closed after crash and car fire near Quinton - https://www.birmingham-now.co.uk/ www.birmingham-now.co.uk · 4 days ago

road LIVE - Man died after a severe car crash and car fire on M5 - https://www.birmingham-now.co.uk/ www.birmingham-now.co.uk · 5 days ago

road Birmingham stretch of M5 remains closed after late-night crash and car fire - Express and Star www.expressandstar.com · 5 days ago

Official feeds

Live incidents on or near the M5 right now

Transport-authority and traffic-data incidents within 12 km of the centreline, nearest first.

No official live incident inside the M5 corridor at the moment. Feeds are re-read every 15 minutes.

Official DOT feeds · live snapshots

Live traffic cameras along the M5

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: A4 Colnbrook/Stanwell Moor Rd — **A4 Colnbrook/Stanwell Moor Rd**TfL JamCams (London) · 148 km from centre

Traffic camera: Airport Way/Stanwellmore Rd — **Airport Way/Stanwellmore Rd**TfL JamCams (London) · 149 km from centre

Traffic camera: Western Ave/Swakeleys RB — **Western Ave/Swakeleys RB**TfL JamCams (London) · 149 km from centre

Traffic camera: A40 Western Ave/Long Lane — **A40 Western Ave/Long Lane**TfL JamCams (London) · 151 km from centre

Traffic camera: A4 West of Sipson Road — **A4 West of Sipson Road**TfL JamCams (London) · 151 km from centre

Traffic camera: Clockhouse Lane/Staines Rd — **Clockhouse Lane/Staines Rd**TfL JamCams (London) · 152 km from centre

Traffic camera: Bath Rd / Oxford Ave — **Bath Rd / Oxford Ave**TfL JamCams (London) · 153 km from centre

Traffic camera: A30 Hatton Cross — **A30 Hatton Cross**TfL JamCams (London) · 153 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

M5 accident history

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

Questions

M5 — FAQ

Is there an accident on the M5 today?

No news report naming the M5 has reached our feeds in the last 24 hours. The list below shows the most recent mentions from the last 7 days; official live incidents inside the corridor appear in the table when an authority publishes them.

Where does this M5 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 12 km of the road's centreline; (3) the live traffic-camera index for cameras nearest to each waypoint.

How is 'near the M5' defined?

The road is stored as 7 waypoints (West Bromwich (J1), Worcester (J7), Cheltenham (J11), Bristol (J18)…). A report or incident counts as on the corridor when it lies within 12 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 M5?

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.