M6 crash J18–J19 southbound
Crash on the M6 southbound at J18–J19 on Wednesday 28 October 2026, from 13:54. Cleared at 20:23 after 6 h 29 min. Timeline of reports from TomTom, the motorway signs and National Highways.
- Status
- Cleared 20:23 on 28 Oct 2026, after 6 h 29 min
- Location
- M6 southbound · J18–J19
- Reported as
- Collision
- Lanes
- 1 of 3 lanes closed
- At its worst
- Stationary traffic · delay ~50 min
- Sources
- TomTom ×8 · Motorway signs ×2 · National Highways
Timeline
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic, Lane closed”, delay ~4 min
- TomTom: “Slow traffic, Lane closed”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic, Lane closed”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic, Lane closed”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic, Lane closed”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic, Lane closed”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~6 min
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic, Lane closed”
- Motorway signs: “INCIDENT SLOW DOWN”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic, Lane closed”, delay ~7 min
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~8 min
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic, Lane closed”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- Motorway signs no longer show “INCIDENT SLOW DOWN”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic, Lane closed”, delay ~4 min (reported again)
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic, Lane closed”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic, Lane closed”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic, Lane closed”, delay ~34 min (reported again)
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic, Lane closed”, delay ~10 min (reported again)
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic, Lane closed”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic, Lane closed”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: delay now ~49 min (was ~36)
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic, Lane closed”, delay ~7 min (reported again)
- TomTom: delay now ~29 min (was ~48)
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~16 min
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~17 min
- TomTom: delay now ~50 min (was ~33)
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic, Lane closed”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic, Lane closed”
- Motorway signs: “COLLISION”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~11 min
- National Highways: 1 of 3 lanes closed
- TomTom: delay now ~25 min (was ~38)
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~11 min
- TomTom: now says collision, “Stationary traffic, Accident”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic, Accident”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic, Lane closed”
- TomTom no longer reports it
- National Highways: lane closure lifted
- Motorway signs no longer show “COLLISION”
- All clear: no source reports it any more
Source reports
- Queuing traffic, Lane closed
- Slow traffic
- Overhead signs read “INCIDENT SLOW DOWN” (2 signs; furthest along: M6 southbound between J21 and J20).
- Stationary traffic
- Queuing traffic
- Queuing traffic, Accident
- Overhead signs read “COLLISION” (2 signs; furthest along: M6 southbound between J19 and J18).
- M6 southbound between J19 and J18
Other recent incidents on the M6
- M6 reported crash J16–J15 southbound
- M6 stopped traffic J6–J7 northbound
- M6 crash J18–J19 southbound
- M6 crash J23–J22 southbound
- M6 stopped traffic J9–J10
- M6 crash J4 southbound
- M6 stopped traffic J10–J9 southbound
- M6 crash J15–J14 southbound
- M6 stopped traffic J18–J19 northbound
- M6 crash J13–J14 northbound
Live traffic and past incidents at M6 J18 and M6 J19.
The sources don't report causes or injuries, so neither does this page. Times are UK time. For alerts, follow @motorways.me on Bluesky.