M3 Junction 3 Northbound - traffic issues.

[onyx39]

Would seem that this is the place to avoid today, various Traffic England alerts have arrived in my mailbox this afternoon.
Grass fire on verge, accidents etc. Saying normal service will be resumed at 4.45 pm, so clearly whatever has happened is not minor.

http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/m3-mul...

[onyx39]

I'm reading that there was fairly major heath fire, and rubber-neckers crashed whilst looking at the fire....

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eybic said:

I saw something on Facebook from a woman claiming to be the wife of the van driver. Apparently he walked away with just a cut to his head

I heard the same from a different source.
Lucky man. Will teach him to watch where he is going.

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FurryExocet said:

Yesterday was fking busy!
M25 and M3 were awful, traffic chaos throughout the rush hour and beyond.
I felt sorry for those affected, at least I was getting paid

I have a friend who works in Colnbook and lives in Farnborough, she was just saying that the M25 was as bad as the M3.
NO way I could do that commute, I used to do it, but not any more.

[onyx39]

Looks like a major grass fire in Chobham now, unsure if that will affect things, I know that it has in the past!

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spurs coupe said:

I agree, no fires tomorrow please, took me almost an hour to get from Cloche Hat/Stovells Chobham to Woking today!

Yesterday Sunningdale was a joke!

That's assuming they got it put out of course.
It was apparently the size of 42 football pitches, and if it's anything like Swinley Forest a few years back, that took days to put out.