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M5 J17 at 10:47 on Monday 12 October: 1 incident at this junction · 1 nearby · closure planned from 21:00.
Straight from National Highways, re-checked every 3 minutes while this page is open.
Location from the National Highways junction reference. Nearest towns: Keynsham, Chipping Sodbury.
Wider area: counting every road within 3 miles — local streets, A-roads, everything — 1,108 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 M5 itself, within 2 miles of J17. 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 M5 J17 → 22 of 32 junctions on the M5 · see where it ranks nationallyM5 J17 is at Bristol & Cribbs Causeway. National Highways signs it as Cribbs Causeway. The nearest town is Keynsham.
No collision is listed at M5 J17 as of 10:47, but National Highways report: The M5 northbound between junctions J18 and J15. Congestion. Normal traffic conditions are expected between 11:00 and 11:15 on 12 October 2026. There are currently delays between 20 and 30 minutes ag….
Not right now. Planned: M5 northbound Jct 17 between exit and entry slip roads carriageway closure, from 21:00 until 06:00 Tue 13 Oct.
Police STATS19 records show 24 collisions on the M5 within 2 miles of J17, including 0 fatal and 3 serious. Counting every road in the area, 1,108 collisions are recorded within 3 miles. That ranks it 473 of 554 UK junctions we hold collision records for.
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