M42 stopped traffic J6
Live Still reported at 16:30 UK time, since 12:00 (4 h 30 min).
Stopped traffic on the M42 at J6 on Friday 9 October 2026, from 12:00. Still reported at 16:30 UK time. Timeline of reports from TomTom.
M42 · J6
Queueing traffic
since 12:00 (4 h 30 min) · delay ~21 min · queue 6.9 mi
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Timeline
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~3 min
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~4 min
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~11 min
- TomTom: delay now ~7 min (was ~22), “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: delay now ~35 min (was ~11)
- TomTom: delay now ~66 min (was ~35)
- TomTom: delay now ~38 min (was ~66)
- TomTom: delay now ~49 min (was ~37)
- TomTom: delay now ~33 min (was ~49)
What the sources said
- Slow traffic
- Stationary traffic
Other recent incidents on the M42
- M42 reported crash J4A southbound
- M42 crash J2–J3 northbound
- M42 stopped traffic J8–J9 northbound
- M42 crash J8–J9 northbound
- M42 crash J2–J1 southbound
- M42 crash J2 southbound
- M42 delays J5–J4
- M42 reported crash J7A–J7 southbound
- M42 crash J10–J11
- M42 reported crash J10–J11 northbound
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