M25 crash J8–J9 clockwise
Crash on the M25 clockwise at J8–J9 on Thursday 22 October 2026, from 16:33. Cleared at 20:29 after 3 h 56 min. Timeline of reports from TomTom and the motorway signs.
- Status
- Cleared 20:29 on 22 Oct 2026, after 3 h 56 min
- Location
- M25 clockwise · J8–J9
- Reported as
- Collision
- Lanes
- Road closed
- At its worst
- Stationary traffic · delay ~173 min
- Sources
- TomTom ×7 · Motorway signs ×3
Timeline
- Motorway signs: “COLLISION SLOW DOWN”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~5 min
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~4 min
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: delay now ~17 min (was ~11)
- Motorway signs: “STRANDED VEHICLE-SLOW”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: delay now ~21 min (was ~31)
- TomTom: delay now ~26 min (was ~10)
- TomTom: delay now ~39 min (was ~26)
- TomTom: delay now ~13 min (was ~19), “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: delay now ~51 min (was ~39)
- TomTom: delay now ~8 min (was ~13), “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: delay now ~73 min (was ~51)
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~10 min
- Motorway signs no longer show “COLLISION SLOW DOWN”
- TomTom: road closed
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: broken-down vehicle, “Stationary traffic, Broken down vehicle”, delay ~173 min
- TomTom: now says queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”
- Motorway signs no longer show “STRANDED VEHICLE-SLOW”
- Motorway signs: “STRANDED VEHICLE-SLOW”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: broken-down vehicle, “Slow traffic, Broken down vehicle”, delay ~6 min
- TomTom: delay now ~15 min (was ~22)
- TomTom: broken-down vehicle, “Slow traffic, Broken down vehicle”, delay ~5 min
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom no longer reports it
- Motorway signs no longer show “STRANDED VEHICLE-SLOW”
- All clear: no source reports it any more
Source reports
- Stationary traffic
- Slow traffic
- Overhead signs read “COLLISION SLOW DOWN” (3 signs; furthest along: M25 clockwise between J8 and J9).
- Overhead signs read “STRANDED VEHICLE-SLOW” (2 signs; furthest along: M25 anti-clockwise between J9 and J8).
- Closed
- Overhead signs read “STRANDED VEHICLE-SLOW” (3 signs; furthest along: M25 anti-clockwise between J10 and J9).
- Slow traffic, Broken down vehicle
Other recent incidents on the M25
- M25 delays J15–J16
- M25 stopped traffic J25–J26 clockwise
- M25 crash J8 anticlockwise
- M25 crash J16–J17 clockwise
- M25 reported crash J8–J7 anticlockwise
- M25 crash J8–J9 clockwise
- M25 crash J30–J29 anticlockwise
- M25 crash J3
- M25 stopped traffic J6–J5 anticlockwise
- M25 crash J13–J12 anticlockwise
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