Another sensationally wrong news headline, "Exploded" - None of the eye witnesses described an explosion.

The truck was carrying "connected batteries" so 20 tons of batteries breaking up and shorting..

There was another one a few weeks ago where a truck was hanging over the roundabout on an M25 junction .....

Anyway, i am sure that tacographs, health and phone udage will all be examined, but nonetheless, a sad loss of a life.. "where is my so/boyfriend/daddy?"

Edited by oldroverboy. on 09/02/2017 at 19:40

According to the news nobody died.

Essex Police said the driver, a man in his 30s, was pronounced dead shortly after the crash by the ambulance service.

I drove past the site of this terrible accident about 15 minutes ago. The A12 has now been opened, but only just. It's down to one lane in the vicinity of the accident site with a 50mph speed limit enforced.

I did drive past this morning, too, using the northbound carriageway which was actually open. Traffic was much lighter than I expected because I think most people seemed to think the whole road was closed, but that wasn't correct. There were a large number of emergency and other vehicles in the vicinity of the accident site but you couldn't see very much because large green screens had been errected. Just as well they had been, actually, otherwise i'm sure there would have been further accidents caused by people on the open carriageway rubbernecking.