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Event day: Blackburn Rovers v Stoke City · Tue 3 Nov · kick-off 19:45 · 5 miles south-west - plan for extra traffic
M65 J6 at 15:17 on Tuesday 3 November: closure planned from 21:00 tomorrow.
Straight from National Highways, re-checked every 3 minutes while this page is open.
Checked 15:17 on Tuesday 3 November 2026.
No. Nothing is closing the road at M65 junction 6 at 15:17.
No. No closures are planned at M65 junction 6 tonight (Tue 3 Nov, 18:00 to 06:00).
Tonight: every M65 closure ›Yes. M65 junction 6 has 1 full closure planned this weekend (Fri 6 Nov 18:00 to Mon 9 Nov 06:00): Eastbound Jct 6 to 7 carriageway closure, Fri 21:00 to 06:00. Plus 1 lane or slip road closure.
This weekend: every M65 closure ›No. No collision has been reported at M65 junction 6 since midnight.
M65 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: Accrington, Great Harwood, Padiham, Haslingden.
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 — 1,785 collisions are on record, 20 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 M65 itself, within 2 miles of J6. 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 M65 J6 → 10 of 14 junctions on the M65 · see where it ranks nationallyM65 J6 is at Accrington & Huncoat. National Highways signs it as Accrington. The nearest town is Accrington.
No — as of 15:17 National Highways list nothing at M65 J6. This page re-checks their live feed every few minutes, 24 hours a day.
Not right now. Planned: M65 Eastbound Jct 6 to 7 carriageway closure, from 21:00 tomorrow until 06:00 Thu 5 Nov.
Police STATS19 records show 79 collisions on the M65 within 2 miles of J6, including 0 fatal and 16 serious. Counting every road in the area, 1,785 collisions are recorded within 3 miles. That ranks it 328 of 556 UK junctions we hold collision records for.
Within 15 miles of M65 J6: Ewood Park (stadium, Blackburn), about 5 miles south-west in a straight line; Turf Moor (stadium, Burnley), about 6.5 miles east in a straight line.
Live incidents, roadworks and delays for the whole M65, updated every 5 minutes from National Highways.
🚗 M65 live traffic →Car recovery near this junction - local firms you can call direct:
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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.