M6 stopped traffic J7–J8
Stopped traffic on the M6 at J7–J8 on Friday 16 October 2026, from 10:57. Still reported at 14:40 UK time. Timeline of reports from TomTom.
- Status
- Live since 10:57 (3 h 43 min)
- Location
- M6 · J7–J8
- Reported as
- Queueing traffic
- Delay
- ~19 min
- At its worst
- Stationary traffic · delay ~27 min
- Sources
- TomTom ×3
Timeline
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~3 min
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~6 min
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~3 min (reported again)
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: delay now ~20 min (was ~15), “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: delay now ~27 min (was ~19)
- TomTom: delay now ~18 min (was ~12), “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
Source reports
- Queuing traffic
- Stationary traffic
Other recent incidents on the M6
- M6 crash J12–J13 northbound
- M6 crash J19–J18 southbound
- M6 crash J25–J26 northbound
- M6 crash J17–J16 southbound
- M6 reported crash J30–J31 northbound
- M6 crash J8
- M6 crash J23 northbound
- M6 stopped traffic J20A
- M6 crash J5–J4A southbound
- M6 crash J14–J15 northbound
The sources don't report causes or injuries, so neither does this page. Times are UK time. For alerts, follow @motorways.me on Bluesky.