M1 crash J22–J23 northbound
Cleared Cleared at 03:48 on 26 Sept 2026, after 13 h 29 min.
Crash on the M1 northbound at J22–J23 on Friday 25 September 2026, from 14:19. Cleared at 03:48 after 13 h 29 min. Timeline of reports from TomTom and the motorway signs.
M1 northbound · J22–J23
Collision
Road closed · yesterday 14:19–03:48 (cleared after 13 h 29 min) · delay ~185 min · queue 13.9 mi
TomTom ×11 · Motorway signs ×2
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Timeline
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~16 min
- TomTom: delay now ~30 min (was ~16)
- TomTom: delay now ~39 min (was ~30)
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~8 min
- TomTom: now says collision, delay now ~52 min (was ~39), “Stationary traffic, Accident”
- Motorway signs: “COLLISION SLOW DOWN”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~7 min
- TomTom: delay now ~16 min (was ~10)
- Motorway signs: “COLLISION SLOW DOWN”
- Motorway signs no longer show “COLLISION SLOW DOWN”
- TomTom: now says queueing traffic, delay now ~46 min (was ~95), “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~39 min (reported again)
- TomTom: delay now ~57 min (was ~39)
- TomTom: delay now ~82 min (was ~57)
- TomTom: road closed
- TomTom: collision, “Stationary traffic, Accident”, delay ~36 min
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~153 min (reported again)
- TomTom: delay now ~236 min (was ~30)
- Motorway signs: “COLLISION SLOW DOWN” (reported again)
- Motorway signs no longer show “COLLISION SLOW DOWN”
- TomTom: now says queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~174 min
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~5 min
- TomTom: delay now ~50 min (was ~89)
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~44 min
- TomTom: delay now ~4 min (was ~50), “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- Motorway signs: “COLLISION SLOW DOWN” (reported again)
- Motorway signs no longer show “COLLISION SLOW DOWN”
- TomTom: delay now ~14 min (was ~8)
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~17 min
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom no longer reports it
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~8 min
- TomTom no longer reports it
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~4 min
- TomTom no longer reports it
- Motorway signs: still reported after more than 12 hours, so treated as out of date
- All clear: no source reports it any more
What the sources said
- Stationary traffic
- Slow traffic
- Overhead signs read “COLLISION SLOW DOWN” (2 signs; furthest along: M1 northbound between J22 and J23).
- Overhead signs read “COLLISION SLOW DOWN” (1 sign; furthest along: M1 northbound between J22 and J23).
- Closed
- Queuing traffic
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