M40 closed, might be some time

[sidekickdmr]

No real reason for this post, perhaps a warning!

I'm on the m40 at j10 and there has been a crash with two cars and a gas tanker, apparently the tanker is overturned!

They have closed the m40 and apparently it will be closed for "some hours"

The police are diverting people off at j10, I am under the bridge, just past j10 slip road, I only came on the m40 for 5 miles/ 1 junction!

I'm hungry



As a side nite, the sliproad onto the motorway is completely clear, there will be a highways agency car at the top blocking the slip road, would I get in trouble for driving up it?

Edited by sidekickdmr on Monday 7th February 08:11

[_DeeJay_]

sidekickdmr said:

No real reason for this post, perhaps a warning!

I'm on the m40 at j10 and there has been a crash with two cars and a gas tanker, apparently the tanker is overturned!

They have closed the m40 and apparently it will be closed for "some hours"

The police are diverting people off at j10, I am under the bridge, just past j10 slip road, I only came on the m40 for 5 miles/ 1 junction!

I'm hungry



As a side nite, the sliproad onto the motorway is completely clear, there will be a highways agency car at the top blocking the slip road, would I get in trouble for driving up it?

Edited by sidekickdmr on Monday 7th February 08:11

Yup, you'll get in trouble driving up it. More than that, they probably won't let you off anyway. I did a similar thing (but reversed up the slip road about 20 metres as I was the last car before it was closed) and had to wait until the traffic police had the OK before they let anyone past.

[Dr Doofenshmirtz]

So that's why it's so quiet. I join it at J8 southbound and wondered why I was the only one there - it was almost a 28 days later moment!

[sidekickdmr]

Still here

just had a knap on the hard shoulder and made some traffic friends!

Is there a silent k in knap?

[sidekickdmr]

Still here

just had a knap on the hard shoulder and made some traffic friends!

Is there a silent k in knap?

[GSP]

Glad I decided to work from home today then! Although I would have been passing there at 07:00... so may have even been involved in it lol

[NLB]

AA website says "expected to open from 1.00pm". Possibly enough time to learn to "knap" (make flint tools/weapons by chipping bits off...), but maybe better to have a nap.

Good luck...

[JonnyFive]

Surely if they've closed the motorway they should be able to turn the cars around and make them drive off the motorway at the previous junction?

[edo]

Walk up the slip road and ask plod what you can do.

[boredofmyoldname]

JonnyFive said:

Surely if they've closed the motorway they should be able to turn the cars around and make them drive off the motorway at the previous junction?

Not without potentially endangering a kitten in sub Saharan Africa.

[Mazdarese]

boredofmyoldname said:

JonnyFive said:

Surely if they've closed the motorway they should be able to turn the cars around and make them drive off the motorway at the previous junction?

Not without potentially endangering a kitten in sub Saharan Africa.

[madala]

....there is no "k" in nap....

[ludicrous speed]

Unfortunately someone lost their life in this accident, I saw the wreckage as i was travelling in the other direction, not a pretty sight.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-1...

[sidekickdmr]

I eventually got free, I was standstill from 7.00 till 11.00, luckily we were stuck near a service station so everyone abandoned their cars and walked up the sliproad for some brekkie/ coffee!

[Nickyboy]

I went over the bridge just above the accident about half 9, luton van embedded in the back of the tanker and a 7.5 tonner in which a guy died was embedded in the back of the luton van.