M6 stopped traffic J7 northbound
Cleared Cleared at 16:01 on 13 Oct 2026, after 9 h 38 min.
Stopped traffic on the M6 northbound at J7 on Tuesday 13 October 2026, from 06:23. Cleared at 16:01 after 9 h 38 min. Timeline of reports from TomTom and the motorway signs.
M6 northbound · J7
Obstruction or hazard
yesterday 06:23–yesterday 16:01 (cleared after 9 h 38 min) · delay ~17 min · queue 6.7 mi
TomTom ×10 · Motorway signs
At its worst: stationary traffic · delay ~24 min
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Timeline
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~4 min
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~15 min
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~17 min
- TomTom: delay now ~6 min (was ~19)
- TomTom: delay now ~24 min (was ~6), “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~4 min
- TomTom: delay now ~11 min (was ~4)
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~4 min
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~24 min (reported again)
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~19 min
- TomTom: delay now ~5 min (was ~24), “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: delay now ~15 min (was ~10), “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~3 min
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: delay now ~14 min (was ~7), “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~15 min
- Motorway signs: “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom no longer reports it
- Motorway signs no longer show “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION”
- All clear: no source reports it any more
- Motorway signs: “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION” (reported again)
- Motorway signs no longer show “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION”
- All clear: no source reports it any more
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~9 min
- TomTom no longer reports it
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~9 min
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
What the sources said
- Slow traffic
- Queuing traffic
- Overhead signs read “REPORT OF OBSTRUCTION” (7 signs; furthest along: M6 northbound within J7).
Other recent incidents on the M6
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- M6 reported crash J32 southbound
- M6 reported crash J19–J20 northbound
- M6 stopped traffic J8–J9 northbound
- M6 closed J21A northbound
- M6 stopped traffic J8 southbound
- M6 crash J3A–J4 northbound
- M6 stopped traffic J23–J22 northbound
- M6 stopped traffic J16–J15
- M6 crash J18–J19 northbound
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This page shows what the data sources reported about this event and when, merged from every source that reported it at the same place. It doesn't say what caused it or whether anyone was hurt: no source reports that. Times are UK time. For live alerts, follow @motorways.me on Bluesky.