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M4 J15 at 14:17 on Tuesday 3 November: part closure until 06:00 Sat 5 Dec · closure planned from 21:00 tomorrow.
Straight from National Highways, re-checked every 3 minutes while this page is open.
Checked 14:17 on Tuesday 3 November 2026.
No. Nothing is closing the road at M4 junction 15 at 14:17.
No full closures. M4 junction 15 stays open tonight (Tue 3 Nov, 18:00 to 06:00). 2 lane or slip road closures are planned: westbound Jct 20 exit slip road to M5 northbound Jct 15 - carriageway closed, since Sun 11 Oct 22:00, until Sat 5 Dec 06:00; and westbound Jct 20 exit slip road to M5 northbound Jct 15 - carriageway closed, since Sun 11 Oct 22:00, until Sat 5 Dec 06:00.
Tonight: every M4 closure ›No full closures. M4 junction 15 stays open this weekend (Fri 6 Nov 18:00 to Mon 9 Nov 06:00). 3 lane or slip road closures are planned: westbound Jct 20 exit slip road to M5 northbound Jct 15 - carriageway closed, since Sun 11 Oct 22:00, until Sat 5 Dec 06:00; and westbound Jct 20 exit slip road to M5 northbound Jct 15 - carriageway closed, since Sun 11 Oct 22:00, until Sat 5 Dec 06:00 and 1 more.
This weekend: every M4 closure ›No. No collision has been reported at M4 junction 15 since midnight.
M4 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: Swindon, Marlborough, Royal Wootton Bassett, Cricklade.
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 — 1,034 collisions are on record, 9 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 M4 itself, within 2 miles of J15. 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 M4 J15 → 23 of 49 junctions on the M4 · see where it ranks nationallyM4 J15 is at Swindon & Marlborough. National Highways signs it as Swindon East. The nearest town is Swindon.
No — as of 14:17 National Highways list nothing at M4 J15. This page re-checks their live feed every few minutes, 24 hours a day.
Partly — M4 westbound Jct 20 exit slip road to M5 northbound Jct 15 - carriageway closed, until 06:00 Sat 5 Dec (as of 14:17).
Police STATS19 records show 61 collisions on the M4 within 2 miles of J15, including 2 fatal and 7 serious. Counting every road in the area, 1,034 collisions are recorded within 3 miles. That ranks it 297 of 556 UK junctions we hold collision records for.
Within 15 miles of M4 J15: Swindon Designer Outlet (shopping, Swindon), about 4 miles north-west in a straight line; Avebury (heritage, Avebury), about 9 miles south-west in a straight line.
Live incidents, roadworks and delays for the whole M4, updated every 5 minutes from National Highways.
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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.