Huge tailback on M40.. growing!

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Not sure how I am getting home tonight following this event...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/7318676.stm

Arrest follows serious M40 crash

A man has been arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving after a crash that has closed the M40 southbound and two lanes northbound in Oxfordshire.

It is understood the crash happened on the northbound carriageway and crossed over into the southbound route.
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It's nearly at Birmingham! Can't wait to see what happens when rush hour hits on a Friday...:(
 
uh oh, this is from bbc travel too:

Location Incident Report
extreme M40; Oxfordshire
northbound between A361, Oxfordshire [M40 junction 11] and B4451, Warwickshire [M40 junction 12] M40 Oxfordshire - Earlier accident northbound between J11, Banbury and J12, Gaydon, queueing traffic.


Last updated: 28th March 2008 at 15:15
extreme M40; Warwickshire
southbound between A46, Warwickshire [M40 junction 15] and A361, Oxfordshire [M40 junction 11] closed
M40 Warwickshire - Closed southbound between J15, Longbridge Island and J11, Banbury, because of a serious multi-vehicle accident. Diversion in operation.

Last updated: 28th March 2008 at 15:30
 
Avoid this area then! at a stand still for a few hours according to one of our sales reps. He is stuck literally 20 mins from the office and can't get off the road!
 
nin9abadga said:
uh oh, this is from bbc travel too:

Location Incident Report
extreme M40; Oxfordshire
northbound between A361, Oxfordshire [M40 junction 11] and B4451, Warwickshire [M40 junction 12] M40 Oxfordshire - Earlier accident northbound between J11, Banbury and J12, Gaydon, queueing traffic.
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Snicker
 
I saw a bloke in a people carrier (taxi) almost go into the other lane on the M3 today .. he was lucky that there was a grass verge he could pile into .. 50 or so more yards up the road and it would have been straight into the back of the traffic or into the other lane .. pillock
 
Lucky I only had to go to Witney today!

Apparently there were accidents further up towards London too around J3 and 4 :(
 
Chap at my work got 12 months ban and £750 for dangerous driving a few weeks ago - he pleaded guilty to it.

Got off lightly, hope this guy doesn't as someone has been hurt and thousands of peoples travel plans disrupted.
 
Kami said:
Chap at my work got 12 months ban and £750 for dangerous driving a few weeks ago - he pleaded guilty to it.

Got off lightly, hope this guy doesn't as someone has been hurt and thousands of peoples travel plans disrupted.
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Whoa, what exactly did he do?
 
Yep - just spent our anniversary at a hotel near Warwick, made our way back to slough via the a-roads which weren't too bad i suppose, thank god i had the radio on as we were leaving to join the M40 !
 
Paramount said:
So orange si slow and red is stopped? How are they so acurate?
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It's Traffic Master. It gets a live feed from the cameras on almost every motorway bridge and works out the average speed. The numbers are the speed, i.e. 0 = 0mph, 15 = 15mph.
 
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