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Old 26-08-2008, 03:21 PM
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is it still closed at junction 17/18?

i'm waiting for a bod to come back from wales and dont' want to be sat here for hours

but there's nothing on the travel sites to say there's a problem, yet i can see one of the guys struggling to get through bath, he's been there for the past 30 minutes to get from lower bristol road to the london road/A4/A46 roundabout
Old 26-08-2008, 03:25 PM
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There is a big scrap between the bushwackers and the natural disasters
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m4 will be closed mate, bbc news said there was a REALLY bad crash and both directions closed.
Old 26-08-2008, 03:28 PM
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heres a video http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7582215.stm

cant find but on the site theres a post about it
Old 26-08-2008, 03:29 PM
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Originally Posted by dojj
is it still closed at junction 17/18?

i'm waiting for a bod to come back from wales and dont' want to be sat here for hours

but there's nothing on the travel sites to say there's a problem, yet i can see one of the guys struggling to get through bath, he's been there for the past 30 minutes to get from lower bristol road to the london road/A4/A46 roundabout
As has been said - Big ass crash on the M4! Also, 30 mins to get down London Road is good going at this time of day!
Old 26-08-2008, 03:33 PM
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M4 is a fucking joke, there is a crash near enough every day between 15 to 18, no fucker can drive, I think it's all the inbred Wiltshire freaks who have 5 arms and one leg who cause all the pile-ups ... Seriously, there are no bad juntions, no confusing lane mergings, I just don't see how people crash there with such regularity .

M6 is shit today as well, big fire at junction 9, smoke covering both sides of the motorway... Fact is out road system is 30 years out of date and can't cope with the volume of traffic of amount of idiot drivers out there
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Somebody didnt watch the breaky news today.

Its fucked.

We get the same problem down south with the M3. Theres at least one crash a day from some halfwit for whom three lanes just isn't enough.
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i hardly ever seen the m6 not busy specialy round junction 10 to where it meets the m5 !

only time has been on xmas day have i seen it half empty!
Old 26-08-2008, 03:43 PM
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not much wrong with the roads TBH just the stupid c*nt drivers
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glad i live up north were everyone drives tractors,so i can zoom past in my focus rs or on my quad ,
5mins at the traffic lights ,is like being in a jam up here
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Originally Posted by RWD_cossie_wil
M4 is a fucking joke, there is a crash near enough every day between 15 to 18, no fucker can drive, I think it's all the inbred Wiltshire freaks who have 5 arms and one leg who cause all the pile-ups ... Seriously, there are no bad juntions, no confusing lane mergings, I just don't see how people crash there with such regularity .

M6 is shit today as well, big fire at junction 9, smoke covering both sides of the motorway... Fact is out road system is 30 years out of date and can't cope with the volume of traffic of amount of idiot drivers out there
i've got 3 legs and half an arm you cheeky git
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thanks for the link and info, but at work nothing i can ligitamatly access lets me view those sites

hence the post

but it was clsoed this morning as it took 2 hours along the diversionary route

why don't they just build an M4 bypass for those who don't want to go to bath?
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