A130 traffic: Drivers ‘conducted U-turns and drove the wrong way down A130 to avoid traffic’

Motorists reportedly ‘carried out U-turns and drove the unsuitable manner down A130 to keep away from visitors’. Essex Police officers have been coping with a crash on the foremost Essex twin carriageway at round 9am on Saturday (June 25) when the incidents occurred.

Whereas the crash was being handled, motorists are reported to have circled on the highway and drove along the A130 the wrong way to be able to keep away from being caught up within the congestion. Essex Police acknowledged that quite a few registration plates of the motorists concerned have been famous and can be prosecuted for the offence.

Taking to Twitter, Essex Police’s Roads Policing unit shared {a photograph} of a automotive that seems to have crashed into the central reservation. They confirmed that the sooner crash led to a build-up of visitors, wherein some motorists did not wish to wait in.

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Essex Roads Policing wrote on the social media platform: “While coping with this collision on the A130 at present, a number of stories have been acquired of drivers taking it upon themselves to conduct U-turns and proceed to drive the unsuitable option to keep away from the ready in congestions. Registration plates have been famous and prosecution follows #fatal4”.

The incident befell whereas the most important Essex LGBTQ+ pageant, Essex Pride, took place in Chelmsford’s central park. It meant that an enormous variety of motorists might have been caught up within the visitors.

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