UK Traffic News

UK Traffic News

UK Traffic News is the easiest way to find UK traffic news. We have been publishing traffic news since 2009 and are therefore one of the older established traffic news publishers in the UK.

Our websites are visited hundreds of thousands of times every month, and on our established sites around one in three visitors comes back to us again.

We cover traffic reports, traffic updates, traffic delays and road traffic accidents on the major UK motorways and A roads, together with current and planned roadworks. Our aim is simply to make it quick and easy to find the latest traffic news for the road you are about to use.

UK Traffic News wants to save you journey time, fuel and stress by helping you avoid traffic jams, holdups, roadworks and other delays. It is useful for drivers in general, haulage companies, commuters, delivery companies and anyone who wants to avoid delays where they can. Avoiding traffic jams helps reduce pollution too.

Breaking Traffic News, Live Today

Breaking traffic news is news about major incidents, road closures and other serious traffic news that can cause long delays. Across our network of traffic news sites, we collate the latest information every five minutes, and our sites are updated 24 hours a day.

We use official data only, such as the live traffic information published by National Highways, so what you read is what the road operator itself is reporting. As with any traffic service, it covers the incidents we are aware of at the time.

Our News Is Designed to Be Easy to Read

We have put a lot of care into how our traffic news looks. Each incident is written up as a clear news card that says where it is, which way it affects, and what to expect. Messages shown on the overhead motorway signs are displayed the way drivers see them on the gantry, and variable speed limits are shown as the familiar red-ringed speed sign. You can filter the news to the road and the type of news you want.

Motorway Traffic News

We have published websites for the M25, M4 and M1 for many years, since 2011. Each one carries the live traffic news for its own motorway, junction by junction and direction by direction, alongside roadworks, accidents and road information for that route. On a busy day the M25 site alone is used by more than ten thousand drivers.

• M25 TrafficLondon orbital · since 2011
• M4 TrafficLondon to South Wales · since 2012
• M1 TrafficLondon to Leeds · since 2011

Read more about the main UK motorways, or see our motorway traffic reports.

Britain’s roads in numbers

A quick guide to why traffic news matters, from the Department for Transport’s own figures. The detail for each road is on our individual websites.

about 101,000

reported injury collisions, 2025

across Great Britain, or about 280 every day. The year before it was also about 101,000.

26%

were fatal or serious

About 26,600 collisions in 2025 left someone killed or seriously injured.

about 3,300

on motorways

with about 44,000 more on A roads. Every one can close a lane, which is why the news changes all day.

about 1,800

on the roads we cover

The M25, M1, M6, M4, M5, M3 and M60 between them had about 1,800 in 2025, each covered by its own website from UK Traffic News.

Source: Department for Transport road casualty statistics, reported injury collisions, Great Britain, 2024 and 2025. Rounded, as a guide rather than a precise count.

Latest Regional Traffic News and Latest Traffic Updates

For England, Traffic News England is one of our own sites. It features all the major motorway and A road traffic information, and other motoring information useful to drivers and motorists.

UK Traffic News also has regional pages for North West England, North East England, the West Midlands, the East Midlands, Eastern England, South West England and South East England.

For Scotland, we used to run a dedicated traffic news website covering current incidents, current roadworks and planned roadworks across Scotland's roads. That service was built on a feed Traffic Scotland has since withdrawn, so our Scotland coverage is paused while we rebuild it on their newer data — a replacement Scotland traffic news site is planned.

Our Motorway Websites and Road Statistics

We publish various satellite websites for each of the busy motorways in the UK, and we have information and statistics that we share with our users so that they can understand the road journeys, motorways and roads that they are using. Alongside the M25, M4 and M1, our newer sites cover the M6, M5, M60 and M3.

We also publish driving information pages: vehicle number plates, road signs and road tax bands, and for learner drivers, how to book your driving theory test online.

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Live traffic news for your road

For live traffic news on a particular motorway, go straight to that road’s own site above; for the whole of England, see Traffic News England.