M25 delays J5–J6

Long delays on the M25 at J5–J6 on Thursday 15 October 2026, from 06:15. Still reported at 08:20 UK time. Timeline of reports from TomTom.

Status

Live since 06:15 (2 h 5 min)

Location

M25 · J5–J6

Reported as

Queueing traffic

Delay

~13 min

At its worst

Delay ~33 min

Sources

TomTom ×6

Timeline

1. 06:15 TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~3 min
2. 06:47 TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
3. 06:52 TomTom: “Slow traffic”
4. 06:57 TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~4 min
5. 06:57 TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
6. 07:01 TomTom: delay now ~26 min (was ~4)
7. 07:06 TomTom: delay now ~4 min (was ~26)
8. 07:06 TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~20 min
9. 07:10 TomTom: delay now ~25 min (was ~4)
10. 07:19 TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~21 min
11. 07:24 TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~33 min (reported again)
12. 07:29 TomTom: delay now ~23 min (was ~33), “Slow traffic”
13. 07:47 TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~19 min
14. 08:01 TomTom: delay now ~10 min (was ~16)
15. 08:01 TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~4 min
16. 08:05 TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
17. 08:10 TomTom: “Slow traffic”

Source reports

• Queuing traffic
• Slow traffic

Other recent incidents on the M25

• M25 crash J16 clockwiseyesterday 22:40 · cleared after 1 h 1 min
• M25 stopped traffic J8–J7yesterday 16:58 · cleared after 2 h 17 min
• M25 stopped traffic J15–J16 clockwiseyesterday 14:27 · cleared after 5 h 2 min
• M25 stopped traffic J2yesterday 06:51 · cleared after 1 h 59 min
• M25 stopped traffic J10–J11yesterday 06:42 · cleared after 3 h 49 min
• M25 delays J16yesterday 06:36 · cleared after 7 h
• M25 stopped traffic J12–J13 clockwiseyesterday 06:20 · cleared after 2 h 49 min
• M25 delays J5–J6yesterday 06:14 · cleared after 2 h 8 min
• M25 closed J10–J9yesterday 00:48 · cleared after 19 min
• M25 crash M25 northboundTue 20:25 · cleared after 2 h 40 min

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