M3 crash J3–J2 eastbound
Crash on the M3 eastbound at J3–J2 on Thursday 22 October 2026, from 15:50. Cleared at 18:09 after 2 h 19 min. Timeline of reports from the motorway signs, TomTom and National Highways.
- Status
- Cleared 18:09 on 22 Oct 2026, after 2 h 19 min
- Location
- M3 eastbound · J3–J2
- Reported as
- Collision
- Lanes
- 2 of 4 lanes closed
- At its worst
- Stationary traffic · delay ~22 min
- Sources
- Motorway signs ×2 · TomTom ×2 · National Highways
Timeline
- Motorway signs: “COLLISION”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~5 min
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: delay now ~4 min (was ~9), “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- Motorway signs: “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION”
- TomTom: delay now ~17 min (was ~5), “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: now says collision, “Stationary traffic, Accident”
- TomTom: delay now ~12 min (was ~19)
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic, Accident”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~5 min
- TomTom: “Slow traffic, Accident”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic, Accident”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- Motorway signs no longer show “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic, Accident”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic, Accident”
- National Highways: 2 of 4 lanes closed
- Motorway signs no longer show “COLLISION”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic, Accident”
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
- National Highways: lane closure lifted
- All clear: no source reports it any more
Source reports
- Overhead signs read “COLLISION” (1 sign; furthest along: M3 eastbound between J3 and J2).
- Queuing traffic, Accident
- Overhead signs read “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION” (2 signs; furthest along: M3 westbound between J2 and J3).
- Slow traffic
- M3 eastbound between J3 and J2
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