M6 Accidents & Incidents
This page brings together the latest M6 accidents and incidents — collisions, breakdowns, spillages and other unplanned events that can cause sudden delays or closures on the M6 motorway.
Latest M6 Accidents and Incidents
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Updated 21:32 (9:32pm) Sat 31 Oct 2026
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M6 accidents and incidents over the last 7 days
Every accident, breakdown and obstruction on the M6 that reached us through National Highways’ traffic information service, counted once each, day by day.
27
45
National Highways’ control rooms: 72 — 0% of those were also reported by drivers.
Reported by drivers only, through a navigation app: 0 (0% of all 72).
about 41 minutes (the middle value of 72 that have cleared)
M6 southbound between junctions J6 and J5: 4
M6 incidents per day
The latest 8
- Sat 31 Oct, 16:11 (4:11pm) Vehicle Fire ✓Reported by National Highways
M6 southbound entry slip at junction J6
✓ Cleared after about 123 minutes (2.05 hours) - Sat 31 Oct, 15:48 (3:48pm) Vehicle Fire ✓Reported by National Highways
M6 southbound between junctions J6 and J5
✓ Cleared after about 201 minutes (3.35 hours) - Sat 31 Oct, 11:35 (11:35am) Overturned Vehicle ✓Reported by National Highways
M6 southbound entry slip at junction J42
✓ Cleared after about 56 minutes - Fri 30 Oct, 22:40 (10:40pm) Broken Down Vehicle ✓Reported by National Highways
M6 southbound between junctions J19 and J18
✓ Cleared after about 14 minutes - Fri 30 Oct, 19:57 (7:57pm) Collision ✓Reported by National Highways
M6 southbound between junctions J15 and J14
✓ Cleared after about 96 minutes (1.6 hours) - Fri 30 Oct, 18:18 (6:18pm) Collision ✓Reported by National Highways
M6 northbound between junctions J11 and J12
✓ Cleared after about 24 minutes - Fri 30 Oct, 17:34 (5:34pm) Broken Down Vehicle ✓Reported by National Highways
M6 southbound between junctions J22 and J23
✓ Cleared after about 1 minute - Fri 30 Oct, 17:26 (5:26pm) Broken Down Vehicle ✓Reported by National Highways
M6 northbound at junction J22
✓ Cleared after about 2 minutes
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Staying Safe on the M6
Accidents can appear with little warning and conditions can change fast. If you come across an incident, keep your distance and follow any signs or lane closures. In an emergency always call 999, and never use a phone while driving — stop somewhere safe first. For live updates across the whole motorway see our Latest M6 Traffic News page.
What Gets Reported on the M6 &Mdash; and What the Words Mean
Not everything that blocks a lane is a crash. National Highways publishes a range of incident types in its traffic data, and “accident” is only one of them. These are the categories that can appear on this page, in their own words:
Collisions
- Accident and Collision — a reported crash.
- Multi-vehicle accident — more than two vehicles involved.
- Serious accident — reported as involving serious injury or worse.
Vehicles and Loads
- Broken-down vehicle — by far the most common single cause of a sudden lane closure, and one reason the M6 can be blocked with nobody hurt.
- Vehicle obstruction — a vehicle stopped where it should not be.
- Abnormal load — an oversized load moving slowly under escort.
Things on the Road
- Obstruction · Debris on road · Fallen trees
Weather
- Flooding · Fog · Ice
The categories above are the ones National Highways actually publishes in its traffic data feed, and the words are theirs, not ours.
Why a Quiet Page Does Not Mean a Clear Road
This page shows what has been reported to us through the official feed. It is the best picture available, but it is not a complete one: incidents are sometimes reported late, cleared before they are ever logged, or never picked up at all. If nothing is showing here, it means there is nothing we are aware of — which is not quite the same as the road being clear. That is true of every traffic service, ours included, and we would rather say so.