M5 stopped traffic J26–J25

Stopped traffic on the M5 at J26–J25 on Friday 30 October 2026, from 11:03. Cleared at 14:09 after 3 h 6 min. Timeline of reports from TomTom.

Status

Cleared 14:09 on 30 Oct 2026, after 3 h 6 min

Location

M5 J26–J25

Reported as

Queueing traffic

At its worst

Stationary traffic · delay ~21 min

Sources

TomTom ×6

Timeline

1. Fri 11:03 TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~3 min
2. Fri 11:33 TomTom: delay now ~4 min (was ~11)
3. Fri 11:38 TomTom no longer reports it
4. Fri 11:38 All clear: no source reports it any more
5. Fri 11:43 TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~4 min (reported again)
6. Fri 12:13 TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~9 min
7. Fri 12:18 TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~11 min (reported again)
8. Fri 12:23 TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~21 min
9. Fri 12:33 TomTom: delay now ~12 min (was ~19)
10. Fri 12:53 TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
11. Fri 12:58 TomTom no longer reports it
12. Fri 12:58 All clear: no source reports it any more
13. Fri 13:13 TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~9 min
14. Fri 13:28 TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~6 min
15. Fri 13:44 TomTom no longer reports it
16. Fri 13:44 All clear: no source reports it any more
17. Fri 13:49 TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~14 min
18. Fri 14:09 TomTom no longer reports it
19. Fri 14:09 All clear: no source reports it any more

Source reports

• Slow traffic
• Queuing traffic
• Stationary traffic

Other recent incidents on the M5

• M5 reported crash J7–J8 southbound01:00 · cleared after 53 min
• M5 reported crash J10–J9 northbound00:52 · cleared after 31 min
• M5 reported crash J16–J15 northboundyesterday 23:18 · cleared after 1 h 35 min
• M5 crash J7–J8 southboundyesterday 17:51 · cleared after 2 h 31 min
• M5 crash J6–J7 southboundyesterday 17:44 · cleared after 37 min
• M5 closed J24–J23Sun 23:32 · cleared after 37 min
• M5 crash J3–J2 southboundSun 17:33 · cleared after 1 h 23 min
• M5 stopped traffic J20–J19 northboundSun 16:07 · cleared after 2 h 9 min
• M5 reported crash J13–J14 southboundSun 15:59 · cleared after 46 min
• M5 crash J8–J7 northboundSun 13:26 · cleared after 2 h 18 min

Live traffic and past incidents at M5 J26 and M5 J25.

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