Part of the the M25 has been closed after a crack was discovered in a bridge.
The fault was found in a viaduct which carries the motorway over a railway line, a river and farmland near Kings Langley, Hertfordshire .
Engineers discovered it during a routine inspection on Tuesday.
The anti-clockwise stretch of the road is closed between Junctions 21a and 20, near the M1 junction. Repairs are likely to take until about 15:00 GMT.
Francis Cluett, from Highways England, said: "The crack is in one of the stiffeners in one of the beams holding up the bridge.
“It’s quite small at the moment but we’ve really got to get that repaired now before it grows any further and creates more damage.”
Traffic from the southbound M1 onto the anti-clockwise M25 is being restricted to one lane only is being diverted off at junction 20 of the M25.
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I dove over that about 8 30 last night clock wise
Although it’s causing massive issues in the area I fully support Francis as leaving a crack unattended can have serious repercussions.
[Take that all those that say I can’t do a clean post.]
Why do drivers block the hard shoulder when there is congestion as there was today? I expect the foreigners but UK drivers are allowed to go to a place of safety, the law allows that. Today we were looking for a truck driver having a suspected cardiac arrest. The Ambulance struggled to travel along the hard shoulder due to all the trucks on tacho breaks, all parked illegally. It didn’t help that we were given the wrong location and the driver was J23 - 22 and not J22 - 21A but due to lack of ambulances, that ambulance had to fight it’s way to J21A then travel to J23 then fight it’s way to the truck, which if the hard shoulder had been clear, would have been quite easy. By time I arrived, another truck was on scene and he said his mate wasn’t too bad but had been rushed to hospital, again inside an Ambulance having to fight it’s way round illegally parked trucks. Hopefully the delay didn’t make the driver suffer any longer and he will be ok.
I got Langley tomorrow, is the m25 open again?
Radar19:
I got Langley tomorrow, is the m25 open again?
Yes mate. Where you going in Kings Langley?
F-reds:
Radar19:
I got Langley tomorrow, is the m25 open again?
Yes mate. Where you going in Kings Langley?
Langley near Slough unfortunately.