M25 stopped traffic J29–J30 clockwise
Stopped traffic on the M25 clockwise at J29–J30 on Friday 16 October 2026, from 14:59. Cleared at 18:29 after 3 h 30 min. Timeline of reports from TomTom and the motorway signs.
- Status
- Cleared 18:29 on 16 Oct 2026, after 3 h 30 min
- Location
- M25 clockwise · J29–J30
- Reported as
- Incident
- At its worst
- Stationary traffic · delay ~24 min
- Sources
- TomTom ×4 · Motorway signs
Timeline
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~13 min
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: delay now ~10 min (was ~15)
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- Motorway signs: “INCIDENT SLOW DOWN”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~6 min
- TomTom: delay now ~6 min (was ~11), “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~4 min (reported again)
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: delay now ~23 min (was ~11)
- TomTom: delay now ~12 min (was ~18)
- Motorway signs no longer show “INCIDENT SLOW DOWN”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~7 min
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~4 min
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
Source reports
- Slow traffic
- Queuing traffic
- Overhead signs read “INCIDENT SLOW DOWN” (8 signs; furthest along: M25 clockwise between J29 and J30).
Other recent incidents on the M25
- M25 stopped traffic J9–J10 clockwise
- M25 delays J25–J26 clockwise
- M25 stopped traffic J15
- M25 crash J24–J23 anticlockwise
- M25 crash J23–J22 anticlockwise
- M25 crash J10 clockwise
- M25 reported crash J21–J20 anticlockwise
- M25 crash J30
- M25 crash J13–J12 anticlockwise
- M25 crash J14–J15 clockwise
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