M6 stopped traffic J10A–J11 northbound
Cleared Cleared at 19:04 on 7 Oct 2026, after 212 h 26 min.
Stopped traffic on the M6 northbound at J10A–J11 on Monday 28 September 2026, from 22:38. Cleared at 19:04 after 212 h 26 min. Timeline of reports from the motorway signs and TomTom.
M6 northbound · J10A–J11
Obstruction or hazard
Mon 22:38–yesterday 19:04 (cleared after 212 h 26 min) · delay ~31 min · queue 10.8 mi
Motorway signs · TomTom ×9
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Timeline
- Motorway signs: “OBSTRUCTION ON SLIP ROAD”
- Motorway signs no longer show “OBSTRUCTION ON SLIP ROAD”
- All clear: no source reports it any more
- Motorway signs: “OBSTRUCTION ON SLIP ROAD” (reported again)
- Motorway signs no longer show “OBSTRUCTION ON SLIP ROAD”
- All clear: no source reports it any more
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~18 min
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~29 min
- TomTom: delay now ~18 min (was ~29)
- 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: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~11 min (reported again)
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~3 min
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~5 min (reported again)
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~3 min
- TomTom: delay now ~8 min (was ~3)
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~3 min (reported again)
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~10 min (reported again)
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~11 min (reported again)
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~12 min (reported again)
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~16 min
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~7 min
- TomTom: delay now ~24 min (was ~18)
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~5 min (reported again)
- TomTom: delay now ~16 min (was ~24)
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~4 min (reported again)
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~12 min
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~8 min
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: delay now ~9 min (was ~4), “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~5 min (reported again)
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
What the sources said
- Overhead signs read “OBSTRUCTION ON SLIP ROAD” (1 sign; furthest along: M6 northbound between J10A and J11).
- Stationary traffic
- Slow traffic
- Queuing traffic
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- M6 closed J6–J5 southbound
- M6 crash J32–J31A southbound
- M6 stopped traffic J20A
- M6 delays J21A
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