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Richard J. · August 30th 05, 05:29 PM posted to uk.transport.london

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Not sure if anyone noticed this morning, but a major accident shut
the M25 anti-clockwise, near Heathrow. It caused chaos as you might
imagine, and I bet a fair few people missed flights or wasted half
the day as the police and incident response units cleared up the
mess.

Top marks must go to the Highways Agency/police control centre for
ensuring that the huge gantry signs kept people informed
throughout. Yes, with a motorway closed and traffic building up -
it's always good to say "THINK DON'T PHONE WHILE DRIVING".

WTF? Didn't they learn anything after the M25 closure (for nearly
24 hours at the QE2 bridge)? That was even worse, and the signs
were showing more "THINK!" campaign messages then. How can they
happily allow people to join the jam when a simple "MOTORWAY
CLOSED AHEAD" would allow people to make a diversion early, or
turn around if the journey wasn't absolutely necessary.

Jonathan
I see that the lorry that crashed was a tanker carrying hydrogen
peroxide. Just as well it didn't crash into a tanker carrying
acetone.

That's a different accident which happen around noon today (30 August).
This thread was started yesterday (29th).
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Richard J.
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