M40 crash J2 southbound
Cleared Cleared at 18:48 on 23 Sept 2026, after 4 h 31 min.
Crash on the M40 southbound at J2 on Wednesday 23 September 2026, from 14:18. Cleared at 18:48 after 4 h 31 min. Timeline of reports from TomTom, the motorway signs and National Highways.
M40 southbound · J2
Collision
Road closed · Wed 14:18–Wed 18:48 (cleared after 4 h 31 min) · delay ~51 min · queue 5.3 mi
TomTom ×15 · Motorway signs ×3 · National Highways ×6
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Timeline
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic, Incident”, delay ~17 min
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic, Incident”, delay ~3 min
- Motorway signs: “INCIDENT SLOW DOWN”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~8 min
- TomTom: road closed
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~4 min
- TomTom: collision, “Incident”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~16 min
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~2 min
- TomTom: road closed, “Closed, Incident”
- TomTom: road closed
- TomTom: road closed
- TomTom: road closed
- TomTom: collision, “Incident”
- TomTom: “Closed”
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
- National Highways: 1 of 2 lanes closed
- National Highways: 1 of 5 lanes closed
- TomTom: delay now ~6 min (was ~16)
- National Highways: 1 of 2 lanes closed
- National Highways: 1 of 5 lanes closed
- TomTom: delay now ~17 min (was ~6)
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~16 min
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~1 min (reported again)
- National Highways: 1 of 2 lanes closed
- National Highways: 1 of 5 lanes closed
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~3 min (reported again)
- Motorway signs: “STRANDED VEHICLE-SLOW”
- Motorway signs: “INCIDENT SLOW DOWN”
- Motorway signs no longer show “INCIDENT SLOW DOWN”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~23 min
- TomTom: delay now ~51 min (was ~21)
- TomTom: delay now ~3 min (was ~16), “Queuing traffic”
- National Highways: lane closure lifted
- Motorway signs no longer show “INCIDENT SLOW DOWN”
- Motorway signs no longer show “STRANDED VEHICLE-SLOW”
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~1 min (reported again)
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
What the sources said
- Stationary traffic, Incident
- Incident
- Closed
- Stationary traffic
- Overhead signs read “INCIDENT SLOW DOWN” (3 signs; furthest along: M40 southbound between J2 and J1A).
- M40 J2 southbound access
- M40 southbound between J2 and J1A
- Queuing traffic
- Overhead signs read “INCIDENT SLOW DOWN” (1 sign; furthest along: M40 southbound between J3 and J2).
- Overhead signs read “STRANDED VEHICLE-SLOW” (1 sign; furthest along: M40 southbound between J2 and J1A).
Other recent incidents on the M40
- M40 crash J10–J9 southbound
- M40 crash J3–J4 northbound
- M40 reported crash J1 northbound
- M40 reported crash J2–J1A southbound
- M40 reported crash J12–J11 southbound
- M40 crash J5–J6
- M40 closed J3–J2 southbound
- M40 reported crash J9 southbound
- M40 closed J11
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