M6 stopped traffic J11–J10A southbound
Cleared Cleared at 15:01 on 27 Sept 2026, after 2 h 8 min.
Stopped traffic on the M6 southbound at J11–J10A on Sunday 27 September 2026, from 12:53. Cleared at 15:01 after 2 h 8 min. Timeline of reports from TomTom and the motorway signs.
M6 southbound · J11–J10A
Obstruction or hazard
Sun 12:53–Sun 15:01 (cleared after 2 h 8 min) · delay ~48 min · queue 3.9 mi
TomTom ×3 · Motorway signs ×2
At its worst: stationary traffic · delay ~103 min
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Timeline
- Motorway signs: “REPORT OF FIRE”
- Motorway signs: “VEHICLE FIRE SLOW DOWN”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~26 min
- TomTom: now says obstruction or hazard, delay now ~48 min (was ~26), “traffic, Vehicle fire”
- TomTom no longer reports it
- TomTom: obstruction or hazard, “Stationary traffic, Vehicle fire”, delay ~103 min
- TomTom: delay now ~72 min (was ~103)
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~10 min
- TomTom: delay now ~40 min (was ~58)
- Motorway signs no longer show “REPORT OF FIRE”
- TomTom: delay now ~27 min (was ~40)
- TomTom: now says queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~5 min (reported again)
- TomTom: delay now ~10 min (was ~18), “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom no longer reports it
- Motorway signs no longer show “VEHICLE FIRE SLOW DOWN”
- All clear: no source reports it any more
What the sources said
- Stationary traffic, Vehicle fire
- Overhead signs read “REPORT OF FIRE” (7 signs; furthest along: M6 southbound between J11 and J10A).
- Queuing traffic
- Overhead signs read “VEHICLE FIRE SLOW DOWN” (4 signs; furthest along: M6 southbound between J11 and J10A).
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