M56 stopped traffic J7–J8
Stopped traffic on the M56 at J7–J8 on Thursday 22 October 2026, from 07:14. Cleared at 10:13 after 2 h 58 min. Timeline of reports from TomTom.
- Status
- Cleared 10:13 on 22 Oct 2026, after 2 h 58 min
- Location
- M56 · J7–J8
- Reported as
- Queueing traffic
- At its worst
- Stationary traffic · delay ~31 min
- Sources
- TomTom ×5
Timeline
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~5 min
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~17 min
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~18 min
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~16 min
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~19 min (reported again)
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~11 min
- TomTom: delay now ~4 min (was ~18), “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
Source reports
- Queuing traffic
- Slow traffic
Other recent incidents on the M56
- M56 crash J5–J6 westbound
- M56 stopped traffic J4–J5
- M56 reported crash J3–J2 eastbound
- M56 crash J5 westbound
- M56 closed J5 westbound
- M56 stopped traffic J3–J2
- M56 crash J10–J9
- M56 crash J3–J4 westbound
- M56 stopped traffic J3A
- M56 stopped traffic J3–J2
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