M25 traffic live: Updates as car fire gridlocks motorway causing 12 miles of queues and severe delays

There are heavy delays on the M25 going clockwise and anti-clockwise due to a vehicle fire.

One lane is closed on the clockwise carriageway between junction 10 A3 ( Wisley Interchange) and junction 11 A320 St Peters Way (Chertsey).

Congestion is stretching to junction 9 (Leatherhead), and the A3 Ripley to allow emergency services to deal with the blaze.

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There is currently delays of 1 hour and 20 minutes with traffic stretching back 12 miles.

Meanwhile there remains significant delays on the anti-clockwise side in the same vicinity.

Long delays and queueing traffic for ten miles due to an earlier car fire on the opposite side on M25 anticlockwise between J11 A320 St Peters Way (Chertsey) and J10 A3 ( Wisley Interchange).

"Congestion to J13 (Staines). Travel time is 25 to 30 minutes. All lanes have been re-opened."

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