M25 stopped traffic J17 anticlockwise
Cleared Cleared at 20:12 on 25 Sept 2026, after 10 h 30 min.
Stopped traffic on the M25 anticlockwise at J17 on Friday 25 September 2026, from 09:42. Cleared at 20:12 after 10 h 30 min. Timeline of reports from TomTom and the motorway signs.
M25 anticlockwise · J17
Broken-down vehicle
yesterday 09:42–yesterday 20:12 (cleared after 10 h 30 min) · delay ~32 min · queue 10.2 mi
TomTom ×13 · Motorway signs ×5
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Timeline
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~6 min
- Motorway signs: “STRANDED VEHICLE-SLOW”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: now says obstruction or hazard, “traffic, Obstruction on the road”
- Motorway signs no longer show “STRANDED VEHICLE-SLOW”
- TomTom: delay now ~9 min (was ~14), “Slow traffic, Obstruction on the road”
- TomTom: now says queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~6 min
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~3 min
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~4 min
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~8 min
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: delay now ~16 min (was ~6), “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~11 min
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~4 min (reported again)
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~28 min
- TomTom: delay now ~19 min (was ~29)
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~10 min
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~25 min
- TomTom: delay now ~14 min (was ~23), “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- Motorway signs: “REPORT OF PEDESTRIANS”
- Motorway signs: “REPORT OF PEDESTRIANS”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~5 min
- TomTom: delay now ~12 min (was ~7)
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- Motorway signs no longer show “REPORT OF PEDESTRIANS”
- Motorway signs no longer show “REPORT OF PEDESTRIANS”
- All clear: no source reports it any more
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: obstruction or hazard, “Slow traffic, Obstruction on the road”, delay ~2 min
- Motorway signs: “REPORT OF DEBRIS”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- Motorway signs: “STRANDED VEHICLE-SLOW”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~7 min
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~6 min
- Motorway signs no longer show “REPORT OF DEBRIS”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom no longer reports it
- Motorway signs no longer show “STRANDED VEHICLE-SLOW”
- All clear: no source reports it any more
What the sources said
- Slow traffic
- Overhead signs read “STRANDED VEHICLE-SLOW” (1 sign; furthest along: M25 J17 anti-clockwise access).
- Stationary traffic
- Overhead signs read “REPORT OF PEDESTRIANS” (3 signs; furthest along: link road from M4 J4B to M25 J15 anti-clockwise).
- Overhead signs read “REPORT OF PEDESTRIANS” (5 signs; furthest along: M25 clockwise between J14 and J15).
- Queuing traffic
- Slow traffic, Obstruction on the road
- Overhead signs read “REPORT OF DEBRIS” (8 signs; furthest along: M25 clockwise between J16 and J17).
- Overhead signs read “STRANDED VEHICLE-SLOW” (2 signs; furthest along: M25 anti-clockwise between J17 and J16).
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- M25 crash J13–J12 anticlockwise
- M25 closed J24–J25 clockwise
- M25 reported crash J21A–J22 clockwise
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- M25 reported crash J8–J9 clockwise
- M25 crash J13 clockwise
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