The M62 is blocked this afternoon as we approach rush hour. A major stretch of the motorway near Hartshead Moor Services is blocked following a crash between Junction 25 and Junction 26.
Heavy traffic is building, according to traffic scanners. The major Yorkshire road network is blocked as the vehicles are removed from the carriageway following the Wednesday afternoon crash.
INRIX says: “M62 Eastbound lane closed on slip road into the services, heavy traffic due to accident at Hartshead Moor Services. Hartshead Moor Services is between J25 and J26.”
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18:55Tom Kershaw
Traffic returns to normal
Traffic has returned to normal
17:52Tom Kershaw
Traffic latest – pictures
17:41Tom Kershaw
Traffic coping well
Latest traffic scanners report traffic ‘coping well’.
17:32Tom Kershaw
Slip road closed completely
M62 Eastbound slip road into the services closed, heavy traffic due to accident at Hartshead Moor Services.
17:08Tom Kershaw
Traffic latest
INRIX says: “M62 Eastbound lane closed on slip road into the services, heavy traffic due to accident at Hartshead Moor Services.
Hartshead Moor Services is between J25 and J26.”
16:32Tom Kershaw
Heavy traffic
INRIX says: “M62 Eastbound lane closed on slip road into the services, heavy traffic due to accident at Hartshead Moor Services.
Hartshead Moor Services is between J25 and J26.”