M25 crash J13 clockwise
Cleared Cleared at 19:26 on 24 Sept 2026, after 6 h 10 min.
Crash on the M25 clockwise at J13 on Thursday 24 September 2026, from 13:16. Cleared at 19:26 after 6 h 10 min. Timeline of reports from TomTom and the motorway signs.
M25 clockwise · J13
Collision
Thu 13:16–Thu 19:26 (cleared after 6 h 10 min) · delay ~28 min · queue 11.8 mi
TomTom ×13 · Motorway signs ×3
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Timeline
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~3 min
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~13 min
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~4 min
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- Motorway signs: “STRANDED VEHICLE-SLOW”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- Motorway signs: “COLLISION SLOW DOWN”
- TomTom: delay now ~25 min (was ~13), “Stationary traffic”
- Motorway signs no longer show “COLLISION SLOW DOWN”
- Motorway signs no longer show “STRANDED VEHICLE-SLOW”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~7 min
- TomTom: delay now ~5 min (was ~23), “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: delay now ~13 min (was ~8), “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~3 min
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~3 min (reported again)
- TomTom: delay now ~19 min (was ~4), “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~20 min
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: delay now ~33 min (was ~22)
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~27 min
- TomTom: delay now ~14 min (was ~24)
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: delay now ~19 min (was ~14), “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~16 min
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~9 min
- TomTom: delay now ~26 min (was ~9)
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~16 min
- TomTom: delay now ~5 min (was ~23)
- TomTom: delay now ~20 min (was ~5)
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~3 min
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~12 min
- Motorway signs: “STRANDED VEHICLE-SLOW”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~4 min
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~3 min (reported again)
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- Motorway signs no longer show “STRANDED VEHICLE-SLOW”
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
What the sources said
- Slow traffic
- Queuing traffic
- Overhead signs read “COLLISION SLOW DOWN” (1 sign; furthest along: Carriageway connector at A30 northbound from M25 clockwise within J13).
- Overhead signs read “STRANDED VEHICLE-SLOW” (2 signs; furthest along: M25 clockwise between J13 and J14).
- Stationary traffic
- Overhead signs read “STRANDED VEHICLE-SLOW” (3 signs; furthest along: M25 clockwise within J14).
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- 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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