Widespread disruption on Friday evening causing delays

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Re: Widespread disruption on Friday evening causing delays - 24 May 2013

« Reply #15 on: May 25, 2013, 22:10:48 »

Not much better on the roads today either...

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For those remaining in the UK^▸ , road closures in the West Country made journeys slow following two fatal crashes.

The M5 was closed after a woman was killed as she drove the wrong way along the southbound carriageway, near Weston-super-Mare in Somerset.

The woman, in her late 20s or early 30s, died after her blue Ford Ka collided with four vehicles on the motorway.
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The A30 was also closed for most of the morning near Hayle in west Cornwall after a 38-year-old man died in a crash.

He was pronounced dead at the scene following the single-vehicle accident at 3am, while his female passenger was taken to the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro with minor injuries, a Devon and Cornwall police spokesman said...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/10080463/Slow-start-to-bank-holiday-getaway.html


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Re: Widespread disruption on Friday evening causing delays - 24 May 2013

« Reply #16 on: May 26, 2013, 13:41:41 »

Quote from: richwarwicker on May 24, 2013, 23:04:48

Regarding the trees down, its been very windy down here in Cornwall today. I've been driving a Mercedes Sprinter van most of day, and I dont recall experiencing getting blown about so much in a vehicle in my 8 years of driving!

Made driving double deckers interesting. Suddenly find yourself veering alarmingly into another lane (especially A30 between Camborne & Redruth on the dual carriageway open viaducts) - oops....


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Re: Widespread disruption on Friday evening causing delays - 24 May 2013

« Reply #17 on: May 26, 2013, 15:01:39 »

Quote from: GBM on May 26, 2013, 13:41:41

Quote from: richwarwicker on May 24, 2013, 23:04:48

Made driving double deckers interesting. Suddenly find yourself veering alarmingly into another lane (especially A30 between Camborne & Redruth on the dual carriageway open viaducts) - oops....

The wind finally took advantage of the metal fatigue on the Dennis SLF I was driving as it managed to sheer the offside wing mirror right off the body of the bus. I didn't half get a shock when a large yellow object flew past the windscreen when negotiating a roundabout, only to look up and find my bus falling to bits.


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