LIVE: M56 fully closed both ways with major traffic delays due to ‘police incident’ – updates

The M56 is totally shut each methods this morning attributable to a ‘police incident’.

The motorway is presently shut between junction 12 for Runcorn and junction 14 for Chester Providers and Helsby. The highway has been shut since round 3am this morning, in line with the North West Motorway Police.

Diversion routes are in place for each eastbound and westbound. Site visitors is constructing as much as the incident and ‘heavy congestion’ has been reported on the diversion routes by means of Frodsham and Helsby.

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Drivers are being urged to keep away from the world and discover a totally different route. In a tweet posted this morning, Cheshire Police stated: “M56 is presently closed in each instructions between junctions 12 and 14 attributable to an ongoing incident.

“Site visitors is presently gridlocked in Helsby and Frodsham attributable to diverted site visitors. Please keep away from the world the place potential and plan another route.”

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