From police Facebook.
M6 SB J10 is closed due to HGV v Tanker RTC. Luckily minor injury but the tanker is leaking 28000 ltr low hazardous liquid over the carriageway. We are working with @Highways WMIDS West Midlands Fire Service Official wmas to clear the carriageway ASAP
From CCTV, looks to be J10 - J9
Is jct 10 south.
Apparantly you divert off slip road and back on again
Said it before. And I’ll say it again.
When something like this happens they should open the m6 toll make it free.
Think of how much money the economy will loose. Due to.people arriving late for work. Goods arriving late etc.
Not to mention the traffic in the area
edd1974:
Is jct 10 south.
Apparantly you divert off slip road and back on again
Said it before. And I’ll say it again.
When something like this happens they should open the m6 toll make it free.
Think of how much money the economy will loose. Due to.people arriving late for work. Goods arriving late etc.
Not to mention the traffic in the area
I don’t agree. The M6 Toll should ideally be purchased by government, junctions upgraded and opened to the general public.
As it is, the M6 Toll is a business who’s model is to sell people congestion-free travel. It would become unviable if it could no longer offer its paying customers the privelege of a clear road during disruption on the M6. In fact, the extra money they rake in when there is an incident probably keeps them going.
rob22888:
edd1974:
Is jct 10 south.
Apparantly you divert off slip road and back on again
Said it before. And I’ll say it again.
When something like this happens they should open the m6 toll make it free.
Think of how much money the economy will loose. Due to.people arriving late for work. Goods arriving late etc.
Not to mention the traffic in the areaI don’t agree. The M6 Toll should ideally be purchased by government, junctions upgraded and opened to the general public.
As it is, the M6 Toll is a business who’s model is to sell people congestion-free travel. It would become unviable if it could no longer offer its paying customers the privelege of a clear road during disruption on the M6. In fact, the extra money they rake in when there is an incident probably keeps them going.
You would think that by now even the most blinkered pointy shoe in the offices of transport operators would have fitted M6 toll tags (assuming they have tags) to all of their vehicles using the west mids sections of motorways.
One might also assume they would employ drivers intelligent enough to judge for themselves whether using the toll road would be sensible and in everyone’s interests…and before anyone laughs it is in the driver’s interests to keep their employer in profit.
Some companies allow use of the toll road, but only after permission is given, and seeing how many companies have banned phone use in their vehicles it’s difficult to know how such permission could be gained unless delays are known about well in advance, and then we all know that the delay that was there even 30 minutes ago might well have just cleared, final decisions whether to use the Toll or not are often made literally only a mile or so before the split depending on what your own particular traffic warning device tells you.
However i do agree with you that the M6 toll should have been bought for the nation and made free for all.
As an aside, the driver of the truck that ran into the back of the tanker was lucky it was a tanker. Judging by the state of the cab, and the damage to the tank, if he’d rear ended a box it would have probably closed both carriage ways, to make way for the air ambulance…