A2 crash eastbound
Crash on the A2 eastbound on Thursday 22 October 2026, from 07:44. Cleared at 10:57 after 3 h 13 min. Timeline of reports from TomTom and the motorway signs.
- Status
- Cleared 10:57 on 22 Oct 2026, after 3 h 13 min
- Location
- A2 eastbound
- Reported as
- Collision
- At its worst
- Stationary traffic · delay ~80 min
- Sources
- TomTom ×3 · Motorway signs ×4
Timeline
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~4 min
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
- Motorway signs: “REPORT OF FIRE”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~17 min
- TomTom: delay now ~27 min (was ~18)
- Motorway signs: “COLLISION SLOW DOWN”
- TomTom: now says collision, “Stationary traffic, Accident”
- TomTom: delay now ~48 min (was ~35)
- Motorway signs no longer show “REPORT OF FIRE”
- TomTom no longer reports it
- TomTom: collision, “Stationary traffic, Accident”, delay ~80 min (reported again)
- Motorway signs: “COLLISION SLOW DOWN”
- TomTom: delay now ~30 min (was ~55)
- Motorway signs no longer show “COLLISION SLOW DOWN”
- TomTom: delay now ~19 min (was ~12)
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~3 min
- TomTom: now says queueing traffic, delay now ~11 min (was ~19), “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom no longer reports it
- Motorway signs no longer show “COLLISION SLOW DOWN”
- All clear: no source reports it any more
Source reports
- Slow traffic
- Stationary traffic
- Overhead signs read “REPORT OF FIRE” (5 signs; furthest along: A2 eastbound between A296 and A2260).
- Overhead signs read “REPORT OF FIRE” (1 sign; furthest along: A2 westbound at a minor junction between M2/A289 and A227).
- Overhead signs read “COLLISION SLOW DOWN” (2 signs; furthest along: A2 eastbound exit for A227).
- Overhead signs read “COLLISION SLOW DOWN” (2 signs; furthest along: A2 eastbound exit at a minor junction between A227 and M2/A289).
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