Been sat over an hour just north of Bristol.
S/b now reopened, n/b still closed.
Numerous police, fire and ambulance vehicles, and a heavy wrecker running down hard shoulder.
Anyone know the score?
Looks like there has been a tanker cross the central res. I have lost a couple of hours today with the M4 closure from 14-15, I suspect you may be having a worse time…good luck!
Live: M5 traffic stopped both ways by crash near Bristol - Bristol Live (bristolpost.co.uk)
Think yourself lucky the last two stoppages I was caught in on the M40 were both over 4 hours.The latter was the the overturned truck that went through the barrier between Banbury and Bicester.
That was just minimising my motorway use from between Oxford and Wycombe from Shrewsbury and Banbury to Wycombe from Leamington respectively.
Motorways are a total unfit for purpose liability.
Got through it lost about 2 hours or so.
Did you for even one minute give any thought to whether one or more of the drivers involved might be even just a little bit to blame for the carnage, or is it 100% the fault of the motorway itself?
I just meant that regardless of the what, why, who was/is to blame, the general motorway use environment often now means numerous stoppages, often for many hours, for at best not enough upside in journey times.
To the point where I generally avoid them wherever possible.
What’s the alternative ? 44 tonne through town centres etc ? That didn’t work then and it won’t work now.
It’s obvious that every possible route doesn’t work for every type of vehicle.
But in general there are lots of A class road options which cut out lots of the worst M1 M6 and other similar type motorway basket cases.
Ironically often stuffed by trucks dawdling at 35-40 mph in a 50 mph limit.Better for me if they stay on the motorways.
Easy soloution is drive your imaginary Jaguar on an imaginary empty motorway.
You seem to have missed the point.Maybe an hour longer using A roads v a lot more hours stopped on a motorway going nowhere.
Statistically speaking you’re more likely to be delayed by a fatal RTC on an A road than by one on a Motorway. Don’t let that stop you though.
The two over 4 hour delays I got stuck in on the M40 weren’t fatal collisions.Also more scope for alternative diversions on non motorway routes.