M25 crash J27–J28 clockwise
Cleared Cleared at 18:54 on 25 Sept 2026, after 4 h 48 min.
Crash on the M25 clockwise at J27–J28 on Friday 25 September 2026, from 14:07. Cleared at 18:54 after 4 h 48 min. Timeline of reports from TomTom, the motorway signs and National Highways.
M25 clockwise · J27–J28
Collision
2 of 3 lanes closed · yesterday 14:07–yesterday 18:54 (cleared after 4 h 48 min) · delay ~29 min · queue 8.1 mi
TomTom ×5 · Motorway signs ×3 · National Highways
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Timeline
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~16 min
- TomTom: delay now ~22 min (was ~16)
- TomTom: delay now ~32 min (was ~22)
- TomTom: delay now ~42 min (was ~32)
- TomTom: now says collision, “Stationary traffic, Accident”
- Motorway signs: “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION”
- TomTom: delay now ~29 min (was ~45)
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~27 min
- TomTom: delay now ~13 min (was ~19)
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: delay now ~4 min (was ~11)
- Motorway signs no longer show “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~10 min (reported again)
- Motorway signs: “STRANDED VEHICLE”
- National Highways: 2 of 3 lanes closed
- TomTom: now says broken-down vehicle, “traffic, Broken down vehicle”
- TomTom: now says queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”
- Motorway signs: “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~16 min
- Motorway signs no longer show “STRANDED VEHICLE”
- National Highways: lane closure lifted
- TomTom: delay now ~41 min (was ~24)
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~15 min
- TomTom: delay now ~8 min (was ~25), “Slow traffic”
- Motorway signs no longer show “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~9 min
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
What the sources said
- Stationary traffic, Accident
- Slow traffic
- Overhead signs read “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION” (2 signs; furthest along: M25 anti-clockwise within J27 after M11 J6 southbound access).
- Overhead signs read “STRANDED VEHICLE” (3 signs; furthest along: M25 clockwise between J26 and J27).
- link road from M25 J27 clockwise to M11 J6
- Queuing traffic
- Overhead signs read “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION” (2 signs; furthest along: M25 anti-clockwise between J27 and J26).
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About this page
This page shows what the data sources reported about this event and when, merged from every source that reported it at the same place. It doesn't say what caused it or whether anyone was hurt: no source reports that. Times are UK time. For live alerts, follow @motorways.me on Bluesky.