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Drivers have faced severe delays after the M1 motorway was shut in both directions as police deal with an incident. According to National Highways, the incident took place near Watford, at about ...
A busy motorway has been closed in both directions due to an "incident", police have said. The M1 in Hertfordshire is closed heading northbound between junction five for Watford and junction six ...
A motorway has been partly closed after a lorry overturned in a collision. The M1 northbound carriageway was closed between junction 16 (Weedon Bec) and junction 18 (Crick) in Northamptonshire at ...
There had been plans before the Second World War for a motorway network in the United Kingdom. Lord Montagu of Beaulieu formed a company to build a 'motorway-like road' from London to Birmingham in 1923, [4] but it was a further 26 years before the Special Roads Act 1949 was passed, which allowed for the construction of roads limited to specific vehicle classifications, and in the 1950s, the ...
Smoke from the blast, visible from Hemel Hempstead, above the closed M1 motorway on the day of the explosion. Hundreds of homes in the Hemel Hempstead area were evacuated, and about 2,000 people had to find alternative accommodation; emergency services asked residents of the smoke-affected areas to close their windows and doors and to stay inside.
The part of the M1 that was closed due to a vehicle fire has now reopened. The motorway was shut northbound between J22, near Leicester, and J23, near Loughborough, after a vehicle blaze.
From the M1 junction the road passes through Barnsley, Cudworth, Brierley and around Hemsworth (bypassed) to Ackworth Moor Top ending in Pontefract at a junction with the A639 road. The section from Ackworth Moor Top Roundabout through Ackworth has a 7.5 tonne weight limit because of a number of tight bends and narrow sections.
Man dies after being hit by lorry on M1. Gavin Bevis - BBC News, East Midlands. December 2, 2024 at 6:59 AM ... which led to a stretch of the road being closed for several hours.