Live M6 updates as multi-vehicle rush-hour smash causes gridlock
All traffic is being held northbound on the M6 after a multi-vehicle rush-hour crash. The crash happened around 4.45pm between junction 17 for Crewe and junction 18 for Holmes Chapel.
Traffic camera images show a car perpendicular to the carriageway, another facing the wrong way, and an HGV at the scene. Further up the M6, cameras show traffic backed-up bumper to bumper.
Traffic monitoring service Inrix reports: “All traffic being temporarily held due to multi-vehicle accident on M6 Northbound from J17 A534 Old Mill Road ( Sandbach / Crewe) to J18 A54 Middlewich Road (Middlewich / Holmes Chapel).”
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