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Event day: West Bromwich Albion vs Southampton at The Hawthorns · Tue 3 Nov · 18:30 to 23:00 · 2 miles north - plan for extra traffic
M5 J2 at 14:06 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 14:06 on Tuesday 3 November 2026.
No. Nothing is closing the road at M5 junction 2 at 14:06.
No. No closures are planned at M5 junction 2 tonight (Tue 3 Nov, 18:00 to 06:00).
Tonight: every M5 closure ›No. No closures are planned at M5 junction 2 this weekend (Fri 6 Nov 18:00 to Mon 9 Nov 06:00).
This weekend: every M5 closure ›No. No collision has been reported at M5 junction 2 since midnight.
M5 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: Oldbury, West Bromwich, Birmingham, Halesowen.
Matches and events from National Highways, the football fixture lists and our team. Start and kick-off times are the source's own and can change. All event traffic this week ›
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 — 7,200 collisions are on record, 71 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 J2. 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 J2 → 1 of 32 junctions on the M5 · see where it ranks nationallyM5 J2 is at Oldbury & Halesowen. National Highways signs it as Oldbury. The nearest town is Oldbury.
No — as of 14:06 National Highways list nothing at M5 J2. This page re-checks their live feed every few minutes, 24 hours a day.
No closure is listed at M5 J2 as of 14:06.
Police STATS19 records show 92 collisions on the M5 within 2 miles of J2, including 2 fatal and 17 serious. Counting every road in the area, 7,200 collisions are recorded within 3 miles. That ranks it 159 of 556 UK junctions we hold collision records for.
Within 15 miles of M5 J2: Edgbaston Cricket Ground (stadium, Edgbaston, Birmingham), about 4 miles south-east in a straight line; Villa Park (stadium, Aston, Birmingham), about 4.5 miles north-east in a straight line; Black Country Living Museum (attraction, Dudley), about 5 miles north-west in a straight line; Merry Hill Shopping Centre (shopping, Brierley Hill), about 5.5 miles west in a straight line; Birmingham Airport (airport, Bickenhill, Solihull), about 10 miles east in a straight line; NEC Birmingham (events venue, Marston Green, Solihull), about 11 miles east in a straight line.
Live incidents, roadworks and delays for the whole M5, updated every 5 minutes from National Highways.
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