The section of the M25 between junctions 12 and 13 south west of London is closed in both directions.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4197500.stm
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And who is working down the M3 today and needs to go home that way?
Deep joy
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I like the quote from Fire Officer Neil Owen, who told BBC News: "Looking at the lorry, it's actually sort of totally written-off".
It looked sort of totally destroyed to me!
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Isn't about time we excluded lorries from the M25 - and other motorways - between 6am and 8pm?(tic)
Trying to get home from Nottingham yesterday - Monday - the airwaves were full of stories about lorries crashing and inconveniencing motorists. The M25 was shut, the M40 was shut, there had been an accident on the M4 and it always seems to be lorries involved.
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why does plod have to shut motorways for hours, bringing half the uk to a halt, so he can rub his chin and feel important for a while?
GET THE ROAD MOVING AGAIN!!!
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Not their fault - there was a hideous mess to clear up - not, I suspect, the lorry driver's. If the press want to be useful, they should name and shame the idiot who allowed the lorry to go out with an unsafe cargo.
Some of the truckers on the forum may be able to enlighten us - would I be right in thinking that there are more accidents caused be either unstable loads or badly-maintained lorries than by bad drivers?
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>>If the press want to be useful, they should name and shame the idiot who allowed the lorry to go out with an unsafe cargo.
In my day it was the lorry driver who was responsible to ensure his load was safe and secure,not pass the buck onto someone else.If you lost a load it was you the driver who got a good kick up the backside and probably lost your job. But then there was pride in the job.
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rustbucket (the original)
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Judging on what the cargo was that this lorry was carrying, hydrogen peroxide, I think they probably got this one right. Going on the properties of such a chemical, see the link below, I think I would rather take the long way round while it was likely to go bang, certainly wouldn't be advisable to have a shower in the stuff!
tinyurl.com/ex3bu
Cockle
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You obviously didnt see this one. Plod did a really great job on this one, getting the road opened again in 3.5 hours was good going. My next door neighbour was in the Q, and said due to the heat plod drove up and down the q's handing out water.
Didnt the n***s use hydrogen peroxide in their rocket fuel?
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