M25 traffic was disrupted clockwise between Junction 5 and Junction 6 after an overturned RV closed three of four lanes. Long delays built on the approach, leaving just one lane available on that stretch.
Junction 5 and Junction 6
The affected section ran between Junction 5 and Junction 6, the part of the motorway that carries clockwise traffic past Sevenoaks and Godstone. With three of four lanes shut, drivers faced a reduced carriageway rather than a full closure, but the queue still formed quickly.
The incident involved an overturned RV, and the disruption was happening while the crash remained in place. That is the key operational detail for drivers: one open lane on a busy motorway section can keep traffic moving, but only slowly, so delays tend to spread back from the incident point.
Three of four lanes
Three of four lanes were closed at the time of the article. That left a single lane for clockwise traffic on the M25, which is why the delay built so fast on the approach.
No reopening time was given, so motorists planning that route had no fixed point to work around. For anyone already caught in the queue, the practical option was to stay with the reduced flow and expect the lane closure to shape conditions until the obstruction was cleared.
Clockwise M25 traffic
The crash was still the story at that moment, not a completed recovery. Until the overturned RV was removed and more lanes reopened, traffic between Junction 5 and Junction 6 would remain constrained by the same bottleneck that caused the slowdown in the first place.
