Thank you Highways Agency

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Spent 25 minutes in a queue this morning getting off the M4 Westbound at J11.

The cause? One of the two lanes on the sliproad was coned off, HATO wagon parked in the middle of the coned-off lane, two guys in hi-viz jackets staring at the large queue they had created that disappeared into the far distance. In front of their wagon was a blue Mondeo that had obviously rear-ended another vehicle - but it was already half pulled over onto the verge, and there was room to have two lanes of traffic on the remaining road surface.

So they may have reduced the chance of another small scrape on the sliproad, at a cost of 2 miles of slow moving traffic on the M4, and much bigger risk of a larger smash on the motorway itself. Top work lads !