Number of Deaths on M5 Motorway in Somerset
Case reference FOI2025/00625
Received 27 March 2025
Published 22 May 2025
Request
Please provide the number of deaths recorded on the M5 motorway in Somerset over a 15-year period from 2010 to 2024.
Additionally, please provide the number of deaths recorded on the motorway so far in 2025.
Response
National Highways have access to the Department for Transport road safety data set. This shows 38 deaths due to road accidents recorded on the M5 in Somerset between 2009 and 2023. After this we do not hold any validated data.
However, there may have been other fatalities such as suicide etc. Avon and Somerset Police may be best placed to provide this data.
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