Here are a few shots of the M6 Southbound from around 1pm today (23rd June 2008). As you can see, from the front and rear pictures, it's a car park!

What's impossible to convey is just how hot it got on the carriageway. With little breeze and being the height of the sun, some people did find it a little too much. Luckily, fellow drivers helped out with water. I say fellow drivers because despite being there for over three hours, we only ever saw police / traffic officers whizzing by in police cars. Nobody bothered to see how we were going on.


Given what I've been blogging recently, I'm not surprised.

So far, I've been unable to find out what's happened. Whilst I can see that AA had it listed as an accident, and I personally saw the central barrier being damaged, quite why it took over three and a half hours to clear the carriageway is beyond explanation!

What's worse, in my mind at least is that the TMC (Traffic Message Channel) system didn't utter a peep. Nothing, nada, not a peep. Considering I paid an extra £30 of so for my TomTom One XL to have this kind of thing alerted to me. Amusingly, after the whole thing was over and we managed to get going... it started telling me about a 15 minute delay.

TRY THREE HOURS MATE!

Tags: M1, M6, TMC