Closed Motorways?

[JCB123]

Hi all,

Where can I find evidence of motorway closures please....highways agency or police?

I need proof of a closure that made me miss my flight the other week, to enable me to get the transfer tick costs back from my insurers...


Thanks in advance PH'ers

[Fidgits]

best to call the highways agency, they will be the ones that requested it closing.

[ewenm]

www.highways.gov.uk

[space1999]

I have noticed on bbc news that you get local news and that would give you the motorway closures from where you are

[bigandclever]

You can ask me if you like... motorway name, between junction x and junction y, date and approximate time please.

[JCB123]

bigandclever said:

You can ask me if you like... motorway name, between junction x and junction y, date and approximate time please.

....M1 J28-J29 29th July this year.....erm, all fkcin day!!!!

Why, where do you work?

Jon

p.s. Also of the correct spelling!

[Sgt Bilko]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/derbyshire/7531...

Give it away a little...

[bigandclever]

A very abridged log.....

10:10 RTC called in
10:15 possible carriageway closure request from HATO
10:16 s/b carriageway blocked and stopped
10:17 NTCC informed
10:24 signs set to "M1 Closed J29-28" or "Accident after J29" or "Road Closed" (depending on location of sign
...
11:20 chicane set up to move tailback traffic (carriageway still closed)
11:27 start to release traffic in backlog
11:32 estimate to carriageway reopen 4 hours
12:09 backlog traffic moved and out of view
...
hours and hours of waiting for cranes and cleaning up the carriageway
...
14:24 lighter of the 2 HGV's recovered, carriageway still blocked
...
17:52 steel recovered from lane 3
17:58 sweep of lane 3; carriageway reopening ETA 15 minutes
18:15 Signs reset to "Incident Slow" and "40"
18:20 all VMS (variable message signs) cleared
18:28 s/b carriageway reopened
18:35 block at Tibshelf Services removed

So, in essence, the carriageway was blocked from 10:10 till about 18:00 ish