M25 stopped traffic J8–J7

Stopped traffic on the M25 at J8–J7 on Wednesday 14 October 2026, from 16:58. Cleared at 18:47 after 1 h 49 min. Timeline of reports from TomTom.

Status

Cleared 18:47 on 14 Oct 2026, after 1 h 49 min

Location

M25 · J8–J7

Reported as

Queueing traffic

At its worst

Stationary traffic · delay ~527 min

Sources

TomTom ×3

Timeline

1. 16:58 TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~13 min
2. 17:21 TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
3. 17:30 TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
4. 17:39 TomTom: delay now ~527 min (was ~24)
5. 17:43 TomTom: delay now ~22 min (was ~527)
6. 17:52 TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
7. 18:01 TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~11 min
8. 18:01 TomTom: delay now ~6 min (was ~17)
9. 18:06 TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~8 min
10. 18:47 TomTom no longer reports it
11. 18:47 All clear: no source reports it any more

Source reports

• Queuing traffic

Other recent incidents on the M25

• M25 stopped traffic J15–J16 clockwise14:27 · Live
• M25 stopped traffic J206:51 · cleared after 1 h 59 min
• M25 stopped traffic J10–J1106:42 · cleared after 3 h 49 min
• M25 delays J1606:36 · cleared after 7 h
• M25 stopped traffic J12–J13 clockwise06:20 · cleared after 2 h 49 min
• M25 delays J5–J606:14 · cleared after 2 h 8 min
• M25 closed J10–J900:48 · cleared after 19 min
• M25 crash M25 northboundyesterday 20:25 · cleared after 2 h 40 min
• M25 stopped traffic J18–J19yesterday 15:53 · cleared after 3 h 13 min
• M25 stopped traffic J2yesterday 15:45 · cleared after 2 h 28 min

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