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M62
About a third of the national casualty rate
motorcyclist KSI per billion vehicle miles
26 casualties, 19 killed or seriously injured, 3 riders killed.
What happens here
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These are recorded motorcycle collisions on the line you ride, not a risk score. A busy road collects more collisions simply because more people use it. To compare one road with another, use the casualty rate above, which divides by traffic volume. Collision data: DfT STATS19, 2021 to 2025, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Weather
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Road surface
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Only about 39% of Great Britain's roads carry a surface tag in OpenStreetMap. No warning here means the road is not tagged, not that the surface is good.
Speed cameras
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Fixed cameras only, from OpenStreetMap. Mobile safety-camera vans are not shown and are not available in any open data. A road with no camera shown may simply not be mapped.
Reported road problems
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Recent problem reports from FixMyStreet, shown live. Only the most recent reports nationwide are available, so this is not a complete picture of road defects.
Places along the way
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Places from OpenStreetMap, Open Database Licence. Ones with a link have a Wikipedia entry, which is how they were picked rather than by opinion.
Where to stop
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We have not visited, checked or rated any of them, and their opening hours, parking and welcome are unknown to us. Places from OpenStreetMap, Open Database Licence.
The bends
For comparison, here is the record for each whole numbered road, measured end to end across Great Britain. These are not figures for your ride. The bendiest rural roads in Britain run about 2.2 bends per km; a motorway is near zero.
Across the whole M62, 197.4 miles
0.17
bends per km, weighted by how tight they are
- Total bends, whole road
- 901
- Tight bends under 175 m, whole road
- 4
- Median bend radius, whole road
- 1158 m
- Median limit where casualties happened, whole road
- 70 mph
Climbing
Not one route
A numbered road is many separate stretches, not one route. Plan a route along it to see the climbing.
Crash clusters
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Rider tip
Cold tyres need a few miles before they grip properly. The first bend of the ride deserves the most caution.
What this is and is not
The casualty rate is measured, from five years of police records divided by how far people actually ride on each road, and it is a whole-road figure. The bends on your route are measured from the routed line itself, so they describe your ride; the bend figures printed under each road name are for that whole numbered road, end to end, and are labelled as such. Neither is a prediction, and nothing here says whether you should ride today. Crash clusters show where riders have been hurt, not where you will be. A cluster on a busy road partly reflects how many people ride through it.
Casualties and traffic: Department for Transport, Open Government Licence v3.0. Collision points: DfT STATS19, Open Government Licence v3.0, motorcycle vehicle types in motorbike mode and pedal cycles in bicycle mode, never mixed. Cyclist casualty rates are compared with the national cyclist figure, 2,423 KSI per billion vehicle miles, and any cyclist rate resting on fewer than five killed or seriously injured is suppressed rather than published. Crime data: data.police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0. Road geometry and bend measurements: OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence. Places: OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence. Routing by OSRM using OpenStreetMap data. Fallback road network routing graph: OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence. Speed cameras and road surface: OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence. Problem reports: FixMyStreet, shown live. Weather: Open-Meteo. Fuel prices: the government's statutory fuel price open data scheme. Place search: Photon, OpenStreetMap contributors. Postcodes: postcodes.io.
More detail on the casualty rates is on our road rate research, and the written guides are in Routes.