M8 roadblock 03/09/09 about 4pm??
M8 roadblock 03/09/09 about 4pm??
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Knox18

Original Poster:

78 posts

205 months

Friday 4th September 2009
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Anyone else know what was going on?

plenty of police vehicles ive never seen before, looked like 2 SWAT type vehicle and 1 big ford cargo lorry. M8 was at a standstill for about 15 mins also when the police vehicles just stopped.

Craigie

1,232 posts

201 months

Friday 4th September 2009
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Didn't see it - where was it?
Heard on the radio that there were delays due to what they described as a rolling roadblock, think it was heading east towards the bridge?

anonymous-user

76 months

Friday 4th September 2009
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I think they were taking a group of poorly murderers, paedos and rapists to the airport so that they could go on holiday, new SNP policy apparently.

Edited by anonymous-user on Friday 4th September 15:57

S2red

2,546 posts

213 months

Friday 4th September 2009
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Ford cargo maybe prisoner transport?

kennym999

138 posts

210 months

Saturday 5th September 2009
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Where abouts on the M8?

Craigie

1,232 posts

201 months

Saturday 5th September 2009
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Defo wasn't prisoner transport.

kennym999

138 posts

210 months

Sunday 6th September 2009
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Had the road shut near Bishopton to recover a vehicle which had been in an accident. Maybe the vehicle belonged to the marine unit going back to Greenock.

Knox18

Original Poster:

78 posts

205 months

Sunday 6th September 2009
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it was from the kinning park turn off onwards, clyde 1 jambusters said it was a rolling road block. i was about 200 yrds behind the police vehicles as the crawled and then all of a sudden they stopped. it was really wierd! then the started crawling again and then stopped again on the middle of the bridge.

kennym999

138 posts

210 months

Monday 7th September 2009
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We usually do that to recover an accident vehicle. Anything more serious the road would be closed longer. The reason it is stop/start is to try and time it so that the block reaches the bump just after it has been cleared.

Knox18

Original Poster:

78 posts

205 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
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there was no accident though

kennym999

138 posts

210 months

Wednesday 9th September 2009
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The accident would have been further up though. The recovery vehicles get to leave before the road is opened up so they are not in any danger.