M25 stopped traffic J4–J3
Cleared Cleared at 18:33 on 9 Oct 2026, after 1 h 54 min.
Stopped traffic on the M25 at J4–J3 on Friday 9 October 2026, from 16:39. Cleared at 18:33 after 1 h 54 min. Timeline of reports from TomTom.
M25 · J4–J3
Queueing traffic
Fri 16:39–Fri 18:33 (cleared after 1 h 54 min) · delay ~8 min · queue 4.1 mi
TomTom ×3
At its worst: stationary traffic · delay ~41 min
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Timeline
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~5 min
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
- TomTom: collision, “Stationary traffic, Accident”, delay ~16 min
- TomTom: delay now ~24 min (was ~16)
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~6 min
- TomTom: delay now ~41 min (was ~24)
- TomTom: now says queueing traffic, delay now ~18 min (was ~41), “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: now says collision, delay now ~25 min (was ~18), “Stationary traffic, Accident”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: now says queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: delay now ~8 min (was ~15), “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~4 min (reported again)
- TomTom no longer reports it
What the sources said
- Slow traffic
- Queuing traffic
Other recent incidents on the M25
- M25 stopped traffic J2
- M25 stopped traffic J10–J11
- M25 delays J16
- M25 stopped traffic J12–J13 clockwise
- M25 delays J5–J6
- M25 closed J10–J9
- M25 crash M25 northbound
- M25 stopped traffic J18–J19
- M25 stopped traffic J2
- M25 stopped traffic J16–J17 clockwise
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