Aerial view of the M5 motorway crossing a river

M5 Traffic News

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Live M5 traffic data from National Highways · updated 00:02 Thu 17 Sept 2026

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M5 Motorway Services

There are twelve service areas on or beside the M5 between the M6 and Exeter. Below you will find each one, its junction and the company that runs it. Tap any name for more detail.

Note: Sedgemoor is two separate service areas with different operators — Welcome Break northbound and Roadchef southbound. Tiverton is not an official motorway service area, but is directly accessible from Junction 27.

Check the traffic before you stop

See the latest M5 traffic news or the M5 junction map to plan where to break your journey.

M5traffic.co.uk is dedicated to the latest M5 traffic news, checked every five minutes, 24 hours a day. The M5 meets the M4 at the Almondsbury Interchange near Bristol — see M4 Traffic for the M4, and Traffic News England for traffic news across all of England.