M6 closed J6–J5 southbound
Cleared Cleared at 19:27 on 7 Oct 2026, after 2 h 50 min.
Road closure on the M6 southbound at J6–J5 on Wednesday 7 October 2026, from 16:37. Cleared at 19:27 after 2 h 50 min. Timeline of reports from TomTom and the motorway signs.
M6 southbound · J6–J5
Road closed
yesterday 16:37–yesterday 19:27 (cleared after 2 h 50 min) · delay ~6 min · queue 3.6 mi
TomTom ×5 · Motorway signs
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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, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~9 min (reported again)
- TomTom: delay now ~29 min (was ~9)
- TomTom: delay now ~53 min (was ~29)
- TomTom: delay now ~93 min (was ~66)
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~8 min
- TomTom: delay now ~137 min (was ~93)
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- Motorway signs: “LANE CLOSED FOR INCIDENT ACCESS”
- TomTom: delay now ~74 min (was ~155)
- TomTom: road closed, “Bridge closed”
- TomTom: delay now ~185 min (was ~74)
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: delay now ~110 min (was ~162)
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- Motorway signs no longer show “LANE CLOSED FOR INCIDENT ACCESS”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~5 min
- TomTom: delay now ~21 min (was ~31)
- TomTom: delay now ~8 min (was ~17), “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
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
What the sources said
- Slow traffic
- Bridge closed
- Overhead signs read “LANE CLOSED FOR INCIDENT ACCESS” (2 signs; furthest along: M6 southbound between J6 and J5).
- Queuing traffic
Other recent incidents on the M6
- M6 crash J3 southbound
- M6 closed J16–J15
- M6 crash J15 southbound
- M6 reported crash J34–J35 northbound
- M6 closed J3 southbound
- M6 crash J32–J31A southbound
- M6 stopped traffic J20A
- M6 delays J21A
- M6 delays J6–J7 northbound
- M6 crash J16–J15 southbound
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