A14 crash J55–J56

Crash on the A14 at J55–J56 on Friday 16 October 2026, from 15:35. Cleared at 16:58 after 1 h 22 min. Timeline of reports from TomTom.

Status

Cleared 16:58 on 16 Oct 2026, after 1 h 22 min

Location

A14 · J55–J56

Reported as

Queueing traffic

At its worst

Stationary traffic · delay ~40 min

Sources

TomTom ×2

Timeline

1. 15:35 TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~31 min
2. 15:44 TomTom: delay now ~23 min (was ~40)
3. 15:49 TomTom: delay now ~34 min (was ~23)
4. 15:54 TomTom: delay now ~13 min (was ~34)
5. 15:58 TomTom: now says collision, delay now ~8 min (was ~13), “Queuing traffic, Accident”
6. 16:03 TomTom: now says queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”
7. 16:07 TomTom no longer reports it
8. 16:07 All clear: no source reports it any more
9. 16:26 TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~4 min
10. 16:35 TomTom no longer reports it
11. 16:35 All clear: no source reports it any more
12. 16:39 TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~4 min (reported again)
13. 16:58 TomTom no longer reports it
14. 16:58 All clear: no source reports it any more

Source reports

• Slow traffic
• Queuing traffic

Other recent incidents on the A14

• A14 stopped traffic J55–J5613:30 · cleared after 46 min
• A14 closed J24B–J2312:53 · Live
• A14 stopped traffic J55–J5408:53 · cleared after 3 h 5 min
• A14 stopped traffic J51–J5208:49 · cleared after 1 h 4 min
• A14 crash J56–J57 eastbound08:34 · cleared after 8 h 19 min
• A14 stopped traffic J45–J44yesterday 16:59 · cleared after 1 h 4 min
• A14 stopped traffic J1Tue 17:38 · cleared after 24 min
• A14 stopped traffic J55–J54Tue 16:30 · cleared after 1 h 27 min
• A14 stopped traffic J56–J55Tue 07:51 · cleared after 1 h 32 min
• A14 stopped traffic J2–J3Tue 07:36 · cleared after 1 h 51 min

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