M60 stopped traffic J17 clockwise
Cleared Cleared at 19:12 on 9 Oct 2026, after 12 h 38 min.
Stopped traffic on the M60 clockwise at J17 on Friday 9 October 2026, from 06:34. Cleared at 19:12 after 12 h 38 min. Timeline of reports from TomTom and the motorway signs.
M60 clockwise · J17
Obstruction or hazard
Fri 06:34–Fri 19:12 (cleared after 12 h 38 min) · delay ~5 min · queue 4.7 mi
TomTom ×5 · Motorway signs
At its worst: stationary traffic · delay ~22 min
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Timeline
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~3 min
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~7 min
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~3 min
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~4 min (reported again)
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~5 min
- 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
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~4 min (reported again)
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~3 min
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~7 min (reported again)
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~4 min (reported again)
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~5 min (reported again)
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~4 min (reported again)
- TomTom: “Slow traffic”
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: “Stationary traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~4 min (reported again)
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~4 min (reported again)
- TomTom: delay now ~20 min (was ~15)
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~4 min (reported again)
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~3 min (reported again)
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~20 min (reported again)
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~20 min (reported again)
- TomTom no longer reports it
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~20 min (reported again)
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~22 min (reported again)
- TomTom no longer reports it
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~18 min (reported again)
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Stationary traffic”, delay ~17 min (reported again)
- TomTom: “Queuing traffic”
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~3 min (reported again)
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Queuing traffic”, delay ~9 min (reported again)
- TomTom no longer reports it
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~6 min (reported again)
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~4 min (reported again)
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~3 min (reported again)
- Motorway signs: “REPORT OF FIRE”
- TomTom no longer reports it
- TomTom: queueing traffic, “Slow traffic”, delay ~4 min (reported again)
- Motorway signs no longer show “REPORT OF FIRE”
- TomTom no longer reports it
- All clear: no source reports it any more
What the sources said
- Slow traffic
- Overhead signs read “REPORT OF FIRE” (6 signs; furthest along: M60 J17 clockwise exit).
Other recent incidents on the M60
- M60 stopped traffic J1 anticlockwise
- M60 stopped traffic J11 clockwise
- M60 stopped traffic J23–J24
- M60 crash J15–J16 clockwise
- M60 stopped traffic J9–J10 clockwise
- M60 closed J27–J25
- M60 stopped traffic J14–J13 anticlockwise
- M60 reported crash J14–J13 anticlockwise
- M60 stopped traffic J14
- M60 crash J25–J24 anticlockwise
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