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Drivers have been trapped in huge queues on the M62(Image: Traffic Cameras)<\/p>\nThe M62 has been shut following a crash this afternoon as drivers are being warned of severe delays<\/p>\n
16:26, 02 May 2025Updated 16:28, 02 May 2025<\/p>\n
Drivers have been trapped in huge queues on the M62(Image: Traffic Cameras)<\/p>\n
Motorists have been pictured standing on the motorway after a multi-vehicle collision this afternoon (Friday, May 2).<\/p>\n
Images taken from motorway cameras show heavy congestion between Junction 18 and Junction 19 on the M62<\/a> westbound.<\/p>\n There is heavy traffic scaling back to Junction 21 (Milnrow<\/a>) with delays to routes around Rochdale<\/a>, Oldham<\/a> and Middleton<\/a>.<\/p>\n The M62 westbound has been closed as emergency services have attended. It is not yet clear if there have been any injuries.<\/p>\n Greater Manchester Police<\/a> and the North West Ambulance Service have been approached for further information.<\/p>\n The motorway has been closed on the westbound carriageway from junction 19 for Heywood to junction 18 for Simister Island following the ‘multi-vehicle’ accident. Congestion is tailing back to junction 12 for Eccles.<\/p>\n Images show drivers caught in the closure out of their vehicles, with motorists warned to avoid the area.<\/p>\n Travel service Inrix says: “M62 Westbound closed, severe delays due to accident from J19 A6046 Middleton Road (Heywood<\/a>) to J18 M66 J4 (Simister Island).”<\/p>\n There is also a separate incident on the M62 causing travel delays. The motorway was shut in a second place between junction 23, for Huddersfield, and junction 22, for Rishworth Moor, following a crash.<\/p>\n It has since reopened but there are severe delays.<\/p>\n Inrix adds: “Severe delays and one lane closed due to accident on M62 Westbound from J23 A640 New Hey Road (Huddersfield) to J22 A672 (Rishworth Moor).<\/p>\n “Queueing traffic on the opposite side too due to onlookers. Lane one and two (of three) reopened. Lane three remains closed.”<\/p>\n It comes amid mayhem on the motorway over the last 24 hours, after a huge moorland fire<\/a> caused smoke to billow across the M62.<\/p>\n And, in Greater Manchester today, there have been severe delays on the M60<\/a> due to a shed load – follow specific updates on the M60 here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The M62 has been shut following a crash this afternoon as drivers are being warned of severe delays…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,34583,2465,760,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-68799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-m62","12":"tag-manchester","13":"tag-traffic-and-travel","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114439105118396023","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1746202032_510_0_2248-1.png\")
Drivers trapped in severe delays on M62What we know so far<\/strong><\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/0_2243.png\")
Massive queues on the M62<\/p>\n