M5 stopped traffic J4A–J5 southbound
Cleared Cleared at 08:50 on 29 Sept 2026, after 2 h 37 min.
Stopped traffic on the M5 southbound at J4A–J5 on Tuesday 29 September 2026, from 06:14. Cleared at 08:50 after 2 h 37 min. Timeline of reports from the motorway signs and TomTom.
M5 southbound · J4A–J5
Obstruction or hazard
06:14–08:50 (cleared after 2 h 37 min) · delay ~33 min · queue 7.3 mi
Motorway signs · TomTom ×3
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Timeline
- Motorway signs: “REPORT OF DEBRIS”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~5 min
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: now says broken-down vehicle, “traffic, Broken down vehicle”
- TomTom: delay now ~19 min (was ~9)
- Motorway signs no longer show “REPORT OF DEBRIS”
- TomTom: delay now ~55 min (was ~23)
- TomTom: now says queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: delay now ~33 min (was ~50)
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~5 min
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~6 min
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
What the sources said
- Overhead signs read “REPORT OF DEBRIS” (11 signs; furthest along: M5 southbound between J4A and J5).
- Stationary traffic
- Slow traffic
- Queuing traffic
Other recent incidents on the M5
- M5 closed J6 southbound
- M5 closed J17–J16 northbound
- M5 closed J14–J15 southbound
- M5 closed J7–J8 southbound
- M5 closed J11–J11A southbound
- M5 closed J24–J23 northbound
- M5 closed J16 northbound
- M5 closed J7–J8 southbound
- M5 closed J19–J18 northbound
- M5 closed J5–J6 southbound
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