M25 crash J27–J26 anticlockwise
Crash on the M25 anticlockwise at J27–J26 on Friday 6 November 2026, from 13:07. Cleared at 18:44 after 5 h 37 min. Timeline of reports from TomTom, the motorway signs and National Highways.
- Status
- Cleared 18:44 on 6 Nov 2026, after 5 h 37 min
- Location
- M25 anticlockwise · J27–J26
- Reported as
- Collision
- Lanes
- Road closed
- At its worst
- Stationary traffic · delay ~82 min
- Sources
- TomTom ×18 · Motorway signs ×6 · National Highways ×2
Timeline
- Motorway signs: “COLLISION”
- National Highways: 2 of 4 lanes closed
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~8 min
- TomTom: delay now ~13 min (was ~8)
- TomTom: delay now ~24 min (was ~13)
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~7 min
- TomTom: now says collision, delay now ~46 min (was ~24), “Stationary traffic, Incident”
- Motorway signs: “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION”
- National Highways: 2 of 4 lanes closed
- TomTom: delay now ~66 min (was ~46)
- TomTom: road closed
- TomTom: now says queueing traffic, delay now ~43 min (was ~66), “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~81 min
- Motorway signs: “STRANDED VEHICLE”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: now says collision, delay now ~56 min (was ~82), “Stationary traffic, Accident”
- Motorway signs no longer show “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION”
- National Highways: 1 of 4 lanes closed (was 2)
- TomTom: delay now ~48 min (was ~69)
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~9 min
- TomTom: now says broken-down vehicle, “traffic, Broken down vehicle”
- TomTom: now says queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: delay now ~15 min (was ~24), “Queuing traffic”
- Motorway signs no longer show “COLLISION”
- Motorway signs no longer show “STRANDED VEHICLE”
- National Highways: lane closure lifted
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~3 min
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~5 min
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- Motorway signs: “STRANDED VEHICLE”
- TomTom: delay now ~19 min (was ~32)
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~4 min
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~17 min (reported again)
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~10 min
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~8 min
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~4 min (reported again)
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- Motorway signs no longer show “STRANDED VEHICLE”
- Motorway signs: “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~3 min (reported again)
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~4 min
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~9 min
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~8 min
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- Motorway signs no longer show “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~5 min
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- Motorway signs: “COLLISION SLOW DOWN”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~8 min
- TomTom: now says collision, “Queuing traffic, Accident”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic, Accident”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic, Accident”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: delay now ~15 min (was ~9), “Stationary traffic, Accident”
- TomTom: delay now ~23 min (was ~15)
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~7 min
- TomTom: now says queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~13 min
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~5 min (reported again)
- Motorway signs no longer show “COLLISION SLOW DOWN”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~5 min
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~4 min (reported again)
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
Source reports
- Stationary traffic
- Queuing traffic
- Closed
- Overhead signs read “COLLISION” (1 sign; furthest along: M25 anti-clockwise between J27 and J26).
- Overhead signs read “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION” (4 signs; furthest along: M25 clockwise between J26 and J27).
- M25 anti-clockwise between J27 and J26
- Slow traffic
- Overhead signs read “STRANDED VEHICLE” (1 sign; furthest along: M25 clockwise between J26 and J27).
- Overhead signs read “STRANDED VEHICLE” (1 sign; furthest along: M25 J25 clockwise exit).
- Overhead signs read “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION” (1 sign; furthest along: M25 clockwise between J24 and J25).
- Overhead signs read “COLLISION SLOW DOWN” (3 signs; furthest along: M25 clockwise between J22 and J23).
Other recent incidents on the M25
- M25 closed J12–J13 clockwise
- M25 reported crash J5 clockwise
- M25 crash J3–J2 anticlockwise
- M25 crash J22–J21A clockwise
- M25 crash J24–J25 clockwise
- M25 crash J21–J20 anticlockwise
- M25 stopped traffic J16–J17 clockwise
- M25 crash J15–J16 clockwise
- M25 stopped traffic J11–J10 anticlockwise
- M25 stopped traffic J2
Live traffic and past incidents at M25 J27 and M25 J26.
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