M6 stopped traffic J8
Cleared Cleared at 19:37 on 8 Oct 2026, after 6 h 29 min.
Stopped traffic on the M6 at J8 on Thursday 8 October 2026, from 13:08. Cleared at 19:37 after 6 h 29 min. Timeline of reports from TomTom.
M6 · J8
Queueing traffic
Thu 13:08–Thu 19:37 (cleared after 6 h 29 min) · delay ~10 min · queue 3.4 mi
TomTom ×6
At its worst: stationary traffic · delay ~32 min
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Timeline
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~4 min
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~4 min
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: delay now ~32 min (was ~21)
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: delay now ~18 min (was ~32)
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~4 min
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~8 min
- TomTom: delay now ~4 min (was ~12)
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: delay now ~20 min (was ~15)
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~4 min (reported again)
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~3 min (reported again)
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: delay now ~17 min (was ~7)
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~5 min
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~10 min
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: delay now ~7 min (was ~13)
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
What the sources said
- Stationary traffic
- Slow traffic
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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