There seems to be a lot of these lorry fires recently and looking at the charred remains of this truck it was obvious to me the fire started in the cab as the rear of the truck was almost in tact, in fact the cars at the rear weren’t burned out?
No reason apologise when that thread was posted 20:15 I was at the scene travelling westbound anyway I managed to miss the tail back on my side and had a half hour break in Manchester so when I came past on the way back at 22:15ish all lanes were open, no tail back and a recovery lorry was lifting the burned out shell, so my timing was indeed fortunate