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Large gantry sign M5 southbound before Junction 12 obscured

Reported via mobile in the Sign Obscured (NH) category anonymously at 17:32, Monday 6 October 2025

Sent to National Highways less than a minute later. FixMyStreet ref: 8260047.

The large gantry sign on the M5 southbound before Junction 12 is obscured by trees. You don't see any warning signs until the very last minute, and many drivers will not see it at all. Given the dangerous level of traffic backing up off the slip road onto the motorway forcing vehicles to queue on the hard shoulder or vehicles that skip the queue and end up stationary in L1 the more advanced notice people have the better.

Unfortunately this queuing is a fatality waiting to happen.

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