M25 closed J17–J16 anticlockwise (obstruction)
Cleared Cleared at 18:58 on 23 Sept 2026, after 13 h 41 min.
Road closure on the M25 anticlockwise at J17–J16 on Wednesday 23 September 2026, from 05:18. Cleared at 18:58 after 13 h 41 min. Timeline of reports from the motorway signs, TomTom and National Highways.
M25 anticlockwise · J17–J16
Obstruction or hazard
Road closed · Wed 05:18–Wed 18:58 (cleared after 13 h 41 min) · delay ~24 min · queue 8.8 mi
Motorway signs ×4 · TomTom ×14 · National Highways
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Timeline
- Motorway signs: “VEHICLE FIRE SLOW DOWN”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~5 min
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~5 min
- Motorway signs no longer show “VEHICLE FIRE SLOW DOWN”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~12 min
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~4 min
- TomTom: delay now ~23 min (was ~12)
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- Motorway signs: “VEHICLE FIRE SLOW DOWN”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~25 min
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~11 min
- TomTom: obstruction or hazard, “Closed, Vehicle fire”, road closed
- TomTom: obstruction or hazard, “Vehicle fire”
- TomTom: obstruction or hazard, “Vehicle fire”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- Motorway signs: “VEHICLE FIRE SLOW DOWN”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~1 min
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~1 min
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~1 min
- Motorway signs: “VEHICLE FIRE SLOW DOWN”
- TomTom: obstruction or hazard, “Slow traffic, Vehicle fire”, delay ~1 min
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom no longer reports it
- Motorway signs no longer show “VEHICLE FIRE SLOW DOWN”
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- Motorway signs no longer show “VEHICLE FIRE SLOW DOWN”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~18 min
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~20 min (reported again)
- TomTom: delay now ~14 min (was ~20)
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- National Highways: 1 of 5 lanes closed
- TomTom: delay now ~27 min (was ~20)
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~4 min (reported again)
- TomTom: delay now ~24 min (was ~18), “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: delay now ~9 min (was ~4)
- National Highways: lane closure lifted
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
What the sources said
- Overhead signs read “VEHICLE FIRE SLOW DOWN” (2 signs; furthest along: M25 anti-clockwise between J17 and J16).
- Slow traffic
- Closed, Vehicle fire
- Vehicle fire
- Stationary traffic
- Overhead signs read “VEHICLE FIRE SLOW DOWN” (1 sign; furthest along: M25 clockwise between J14 and J15).
- Overhead signs read “VEHICLE FIRE SLOW DOWN” (2 signs; furthest along: M25 anti-clockwise between J16 and J15).
- Overhead signs read “VEHICLE FIRE SLOW DOWN” (1 sign; furthest along: M25 anti-clockwise between J16 and J15).
- Slow traffic, Vehicle fire
- Queuing traffic
- M25 anti-clockwise between J17 and J16
Other recent incidents on the M25
- M25 reported crash J13–J12 anticlockwise
- M25 stopped traffic J17
- M25 crash J27–J28 clockwise
- M25 crash J3–J2 anticlockwise
- M25 crash J13–J12 anticlockwise
- M25 stopped traffic J17 anticlockwise
- M25 closed J24–J25 clockwise
- M25 reported crash J21A–J22 clockwise
- M25 crash J9–J8 anticlockwise
- M25 reported crash J8–J9 clockwise
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