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M50 traffic at 21:10 on Sunday 18 October: no major incidents reported — live National Highways updates every 5 minutes, 24/7.
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🟢 Clear · 🟡 Delays nearby · 🔴 Severe/Crash · Status labels: 💥 CRASH · ❌ CLOSED · 🐌 SLOW · 🚧 WORKS · ⚠️ HAZARD
A red or orange junction border marks a STATS19 collision blackspot. Tap any junction for its own page — live incidents and full collision history. Tap the funnel to filter the list above.
Based on DfT STATS19 police collision records. The M50 has 49 recorded collisions at 6 collision hotspots, involving 82 casualties (2 fatal). Take extra care here. Ranked by fatal, then serious collisions, then casualties - not by the number of collisions alone.
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Any M50 closure appears in the live feed above within minutes of National Highways reporting it, including tonight's overnight roadworks closures.
The live feed above shows every incident, delay, roadwork and overnight closure on the M50, updated every 5 minutes, 24 hours a day, from National Highways.
The M50 is typically busiest during morning rush hour (07:00–09:00) and evening rush hour (16:30–19:00) on weekdays.
Roadworks and overnight closures on the M50 are listed above and at /traffic/m50/roadworks/, taken from the National Highways daily closure report.
The M50 connects to: M5, A40.
Each side has its own live page: the M50 eastbound (towards Tewkesbury) and the M50 westbound (towards Ross-on-Wye) each list every accident, breakdown, closure and roadworks on that carriageway, updated every 5 minutes, 24 hours a day, from National Highways. The panel at the top of this page shows both sides at a glance.
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Daily M50 incidents, posted across all four channels.
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Broken down on the M50? Send one free request and local firms are told.
On a motorway? If you can, get onto the hard shoulder or into an emergency area, leave by the left-hand doors and wait behind the barrier. Stuck in a live lane: stay in the car with your seatbelt on and hazard lights on, and call 999.