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

[Knox18]

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]

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]

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]

Ford cargo maybe prisoner transport?

[kennym999]

Where abouts on the M8?

[Craigie]

Defo wasn't prisoner transport.

[kennym999]

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]

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]

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]

there was no accident though

[kennym999]

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.