M42 crash J5–J6
Crash on the M42 at J5–J6 on Tuesday 27 October 2026, from 15:12. Cleared at 17:17 after 2 h 4 min. Timeline of reports from TomTom.
- Status
- Cleared 17:17 on 27 Oct 2026, after 2 h 4 min
- Location
- M42 J5–J6
- Reported as
- Queueing traffic
- At its worst
- Stationary traffic · delay ~105 min
- Sources
- TomTom ×3
Timeline
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~8 min
- TomTom: now says collision, delay now ~17 min (was ~8), “Stationary traffic, Accident”
- TomTom: delay now ~27 min (was ~17)
- TomTom: delay now ~37 min (was ~27)
- TomTom: delay now ~56 min (was ~37)
- TomTom: delay now ~94 min (was ~56)
- TomTom: delay now ~61 min (was ~94)
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~5 min
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: delay now ~90 min (was ~62)
- TomTom: now says queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: delay now ~27 min (was ~43)
- TomTom: delay now ~15 min (was ~27), “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~5 min
- TomTom: delay now ~4 min (was ~15), “Slow traffic”
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
Source reports
- Slow traffic
Other recent incidents on the M42
- M42 reported crash J7A–J7 southbound
- M42 stopped traffic J10–J11
- M42 reported crash J10–J11 northbound
- M42 crash J10–J9 southbound
- M42 crash J10–J9 southbound
- M42 delays J7A–J8
- M42 crash J10
- M42 crash J4A southbound
- M42 crash J1 northbound
- M42 crash J10–J9 southbound
Live traffic and past incidents at M42 J5 and M42 J6.
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