M56 stopped traffic J3–J2
Stopped traffic on the M56 at J3–J2 on Friday 16 October 2026, from 13:43. Cleared at 17:33 after 3 h 50 min. Timeline of reports from TomTom.
- Status
- Cleared 17:33 on 16 Oct 2026, after 3 h 50 min
- Location
- M56 · J3–J2
- Reported as
- Queueing traffic
- At its worst
- Stationary traffic · delay ~51 min
- Sources
- TomTom ×3
Timeline
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~3 min
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~3 min (reported again)
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~6 min (reported again)
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~11 min (reported again)
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~7 min (reported again)
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~37 min
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~28 min
- TomTom: delay now ~28 min (was ~50)
- TomTom: delay now ~5 min (was ~28), “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
Source reports
- Slow traffic
- Stationary traffic
Other recent incidents on the M56
- M56 crash J10–J9
- M56 crash J3–J4 westbound
- M56 stopped traffic J3A
- M56 stopped traffic J3–J2
- M56 stopped traffic J3–J4 westbound
- M56 crash J3–J2 eastbound
- M56 crash J6–J7 westbound
- M56 reported crash J4–J5 westbound
- M56 stopped traffic J3–J4 westbound
- M56 stopped traffic J5–J6 westbound
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