M25 stopped traffic J5–J6 clockwise
Stopped traffic on the M25 clockwise at J5–J6 on Wednesday 21 October 2026, from 14:57. Cleared at 17:46 after 2 h 49 min. Timeline of reports from the motorway signs and TomTom.
- Status
- Cleared 17:46 on 21 Oct 2026, after 2 h 49 min
- Location
- M25 clockwise · J5–J6
- Reported as
- Broken-down vehicle
- At its worst
- Stationary traffic · delay ~48 min
- Sources
- Motorway signs · TomTom ×5
Timeline
- Motorway signs: “STRANDED VEHICLE”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~5 min
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: delay now ~15 min (was ~5), “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: delay now ~14 min (was ~7), “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: delay now ~48 min (was ~15)
- Motorway signs no longer show “STRANDED VEHICLE”
- TomTom: delay now ~24 min (was ~35)
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~4 min
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: delay now ~11 min (was ~6)
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~13 min
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~7 min
- TomTom: delay now ~5 min (was ~13), “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: delay now ~6 min (was ~11), “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- 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
- Overhead signs read “STRANDED VEHICLE” (1 sign; furthest along: M25 clockwise between J5 and J6).
- Stationary traffic
- Queuing traffic
- Slow traffic
Other recent incidents on the M25
- M25 reported crash J10 clockwise
- M25 reported crash J29 clockwise
- M25 stopped traffic J27–J28
- M25 stopped traffic J15–J16
- M25 stopped traffic J3–J2 anticlockwise
- M25 crash J25–J24 anticlockwise
- M25 crash J17–J18 clockwise
- M25 reported crash J20 clockwise
- M25 crash J14–J15 clockwise
- M25 stopped traffic J3
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