M25 crash J25 clockwise
Cleared Cleared at 20:19 on 26 Sept 2026, after 73 h 22 min.
Crash on the M25 clockwise at J25 on Wednesday 23 September 2026, from 18:57. Cleared at 20:19 after 73 h 22 min. Timeline of reports from the motorway signs, TomTom and National Highways.
M25 clockwise · J25
Collision
1 of 2 lanes closed · Wed 18:57–20:19 (cleared after 73 h 22 min) · delay ~7 min · queue 5.9 mi
Motorway signs ×3 · TomTom ×6 · National Highways ×2
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Timeline
- Motorway signs: “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION”
- Motorway signs no longer show “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION”
- All clear: no source reports it any more
- Motorway signs: “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION” (reported again)
- Motorway signs: “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~5 min
- Motorway signs no longer show “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~4 min
- TomTom no longer reports it
- Motorway signs: “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION” (reported again)
- Motorway signs no longer show “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~4 min (reported again)
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- Motorway signs no longer show “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~5 min
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~4 min
- Motorway signs: “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION” (reported again)
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- Motorway signs no longer show “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~3 min (reported again)
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~6 min
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
- Motorway signs: “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION” (reported again)
- Motorway signs no longer show “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION”
- All clear: no source reports it any more
- Motorway signs: “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION” (reported again)
- Motorway signs no longer show “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION”
- All clear: no source reports it any more
- Motorway signs: “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION” (reported again)
- Motorway signs no longer show “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION”
- All clear: no source reports it any more
- Motorway signs: “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION” (reported again)
- National Highways: 1 of 2 lanes closed
- Motorway signs: “COLLISION”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~6 min
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- Motorway signs no longer show “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION”
- TomTom no longer reports it
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~4 min (reported again)
- TomTom no longer reports it
- National Highways: lane closure lifted
- Motorway signs no longer show “COLLISION”
- All clear: no source reports it any more
What the sources said
- Overhead signs read “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION” (2 signs; furthest along: M25 clockwise between J25 and J26).
- Slow traffic
- Overhead signs read “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION” (4 signs; furthest along: M25 clockwise within J26).
- Overhead signs read “COLLISION” (1 sign; furthest along: M25 J25 clockwise exit).
- M25 J25 clockwise exit
Other recent incidents on the M25
- M25 closed J26–J27 clockwise
- M25 closed J28–J29 clockwise
- M25 closed J29–J30 clockwise
- M25 crash J10–J9 anticlockwise
- M25 crash J8–J9 clockwise
- 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
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