M25 crash J26 clockwise
Crash on the M25 clockwise at J26 on Thursday 5 November 2026, from 15:22. Still reported at 17:01 UK time. Timeline of reports from TomTom and the motorway signs.
- Status
- Live since 15:22 (1 h 39 min)
- Location
- M25 clockwise · J26
- Reported as
- Obstruction or hazard
- Delay
- ~18 min
- At its worst
- Stationary traffic · delay ~23 min
- Sources
- TomTom ×3 · Motorway signs
Timeline
- TomTom: collision, “Stationary traffic, Accident, Obstruction on the road”, delay ~20 min
- TomTom: now says obstruction or hazard, “Obstruction on the road”
- TomTom: now says queueing traffic, delay now ~23 min (was ~17), “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: delay now ~16 min (was ~23)
- Motorway signs: “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~8 min
- TomTom: delay now ~14 min (was ~21)
- TomTom: delay now ~23 min (was ~14), “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~5 min
Source reports
- Slow traffic
- Queuing traffic
- Overhead signs read “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION” (1 sign; furthest along: M25 clockwise within J26).
Other recent incidents on the M25
- M25 stopped traffic J20–J21
- M25 crash J13–J12 anticlockwise
- M25 crash J26–J27 clockwise
- M25 crash J27–J28 clockwise
- M25 stopped traffic J16–J17 clockwise
- M25 stopped traffic J19–J18
- M25 stopped traffic J26–J27
- M25 crash J3
- M25 crash J19–J18 anticlockwise
- M25 reported crash J15 anticlockwise
Live traffic and past incidents at M25 J26.
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