M25 stopped traffic J2 clockwise
Cleared Cleared at 19:57 on 8 Oct 2026, after 12 h 26 min.
Stopped traffic on the M25 clockwise at J2 on Thursday 8 October 2026, from 07:30. Cleared at 19:57 after 12 h 26 min. Timeline of reports from TomTom and the motorway signs.
M25 clockwise · J2
Broken-down vehicle
Thu 07:30–Thu 19:57 (cleared after 12 h 26 min) · delay ~6 min · queue 4.5 mi
TomTom ×2 · Motorway signs
At its worst: stationary traffic · delay ~25 min
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Timeline
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~6 min
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: delay now ~18 min (was ~12)
- TomTom: delay now ~22 min (was ~15)
- TomTom: delay now ~17 min (was ~25)
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~3 min
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~4 min (reported again)
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~11 min (reported again)
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: delay now ~13 min (was ~7), “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: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~7 min (reported again)
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~5 min (reported again)
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~8 min (reported again)
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: delay now ~10 min (was ~16), “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
- Motorway signs: “STRANDED VEHICLE-SLOW”
- 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 clockwise within J2).
Other recent incidents on the M25
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- M25 stopped traffic J12–J13 clockwise
- M25 delays J5–J6
- M25 closed J10–J9
- M25 crash M25 northbound
- M25 stopped traffic J18–J19
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- M25 stopped traffic J16–J17 clockwise
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.