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🛍️ The junction for Lakeside Shopping Centre and Dartford Crossing
M25 J31 at 14:09 on Tuesday 3 November: nothing reported at this junction — live National Highways updates every few minutes.
Straight from National Highways, re-checked every 3 minutes while this page is open.
Checked 14:09 on Tuesday 3 November 2026.
No. Nothing is closing the road at M25 junction 31 at 14:09.
No. No closures are planned at M25 junction 31 tonight (Tue 3 Nov, 18:00 to 06:00).
Tonight: every M25 closure ›No. No closures are planned at M25 junction 31 this weekend (Fri 6 Nov 18:00 to Mon 9 Nov 06:00).
This weekend: every M25 closure ›No. No collision has been reported at M25 junction 31 since midnight.
M25 accidents today and yesterday ›Answers use official data only: the National Highways live incident feed and their planned closure report. A closure is counted here when National Highways name this junction or a stretch that runs through it.
Location from the National Highways junction reference. Nearest towns: Thurrock, South Ockendon, Grays, Dartford.
Places and the junctions they are reached from are kept by our team; distances are measured in a straight line from the junction, not along the road.
Wider area: counting every road within 3 miles — local streets, A-roads, everything — 2,477 collisions are on record, 24 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 M25 itself, within 2 miles of J31. 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 M25 J31 → 27 of 33 junctions on the M25 · see where it ranks nationallyM25 J31 is at Thurrock & Purfleet. National Highways signs it as Dartford Crossing. The nearest town is Thurrock.
No — as of 14:09 National Highways list nothing at M25 J31. This page re-checks their live feed every few minutes, 24 hours a day.
No closure is listed at M25 J31 as of 14:09.
Police STATS19 records show 103 collisions on the M25 within 2 miles of J31, including 0 fatal and 20 serious. Counting every road in the area, 2,477 collisions are recorded within 3 miles. That ranks it 244 of 556 UK junctions we hold collision records for.
M25 J31 is the junction for Lakeside Shopping Centre (shopping, West Thurrock), about 1 mile east in a straight line - reached from M25 J30/J31; Dartford Crossing (crossing, Dartford), about 1.5 miles south in a straight line - reached from M25 J2, J31.
Within 15 miles of M25 J31: Bluewater Shopping Centre (shopping, Greenhithe), about 3 miles south in a straight line; Brands Hatch (motorsport, West Kingsdown), about 9 miles south in a straight line; London City Airport (airport, Silvertown), about 9 miles west in a straight line; The O2 (events venue, Greenwich Peninsula), about 11 miles west in a straight line; Blackwall Tunnel (crossing, Greenwich / Poplar), about 12 miles west in a straight line; Westfield Stratford City (shopping, Stratford), about 12 miles west in a straight line.
Live incidents, roadworks and delays for the whole M25, updated every 5 minutes from National Highways.
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