M6 crash J37–J38 northbound
Cleared Cleared at 19:05 on 24 Sept 2026, after 6 h 57 min.
Crash on the M6 northbound at J37–J38 on Thursday 24 September 2026, from 12:08. Cleared at 19:05 after 6 h 57 min. Timeline of reports from TomTom and the motorway signs.
M6 northbound · J37–J38
Collision
Road closed · Thu 12:08–Thu 19:05 (cleared after 6 h 57 min) · delay ~115 min · queue 3.9 mi
TomTom ×7 · Motorway signs ×2
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Timeline
- Motorway signs: “SERIOUS COLLISION”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~20 min
- TomTom: now says collision, “Stationary traffic, Accident”
- TomTom: delay now ~55 min (was ~38)
- TomTom: road closed
- Motorway signs no longer show “SERIOUS COLLISION”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~33 min
- Motorway signs: “SERIOUS COLLISION” (reported again)
- TomTom: delay now ~68 min (was ~47)
- TomTom: collision, “Stationary traffic, Accident”, delay ~89 min
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~90 min
- Motorway signs no longer show “SERIOUS COLLISION”
- TomTom: collision, “Stationary traffic, Accident”, delay ~119 min (reported again)
- Motorway signs no longer show “SERIOUS COLLISION”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~101 min
- TomTom: delay now ~103 min (was ~75)
- TomTom: delay now ~74 min (was ~114)
- TomTom: delay now ~100 min (was ~74)
- TomTom: delay now ~83 min (was ~58)
- TomTom: delay now ~142 min (was ~101)
- TomTom: delay now ~44 min (was ~93)
- TomTom: delay now ~96 min (was ~44)
- TomTom: delay now ~133 min (was ~96)
- TomTom: delay now ~87 min (was ~133)
- TomTom: collision, “Stationary traffic, Accident, Lane closed”, delay ~110 min
- TomTom: delay now ~69 min (was ~139)
- TomTom: now says queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic, Lane closed”
- TomTom: “Accident, Lane closed”
- TomTom: delay now ~16 min (was ~24)
- TomTom: delay now ~18 min (was ~11)
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
What the sources said
- Stationary traffic, Accident, Lane closed
- Overhead signs read “SERIOUS COLLISION” (1 sign; furthest along: M6 northbound between J37 and J38).
- Overhead signs read “SERIOUS COLLISION” (1 sign; furthest along: M6 southbound between J39 and J38).
- Closed
- Stationary traffic
- Stationary traffic, Accident
- Stationary traffic, Lane closed
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