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Original poster

to ask why the M62 is shut?

74 replies

cjt110 · 02/03/2018 16:06

Not as stupid a question as it sounds.

I am reading the local news page and can see it's shut. Can see footage of empty carrigeways (around junction 23) but no reason so to speak for it being closed.

I assume it's been shut because of safety for those travelling over Rishworth and to avoid more people being stranded.

I cant see that anyone is still stranded?

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TuftedLadyGrotto · 02/03/2018 17:04

This morning West Yorkshire police said it was due to 3500 cars still being stuck overnight.

CuriousaboutSamphire · 02/03/2018 17:04

delilha That was my fault, I got facebooked I did fess up!

fuzzyduck1 · 02/03/2018 17:04

Just seen footage of a big crash along there looks like 60 plus cars involved. That’s why it’s shut either it happen last time they didn’t close the road in this weather or it’s the cause today

Torvi · 02/03/2018 17:07

Hopping & cjt we live in the same area by the sounds of it

delilahbucket · 02/03/2018 17:10

It's not just you curious. Everyone is going on about it!

Olga81 · 02/03/2018 17:20

Seems to be a serious lack of critical thinking these days. People I consider sane and rational have been sharing the footage of the 'M62 pileup' ignoring the fact that they're all driving on the right, the trucks don't look anything like the articulated lorries you get in the UK and the video says IowaDOT in the top right hand corner!

AnyFucker · 02/03/2018 17:25

I wasn't talking about any "footage" of a pileup, Olga. I got my motorways mixed up. I'll try to be be as "sane and rational" as you in the future though.

hubbabubbanightmare · 02/03/2018 17:26

DB was working, he's a driver - had no choice.

Olga81 · 02/03/2018 17:28

You're not the only one on the thread AnyFucker and plenty of people have mentioned the 'fake' video both on this thread and elsewhere

StaplesCorner · 02/03/2018 17:30

I'm glad you were wrong AF don't apologise!! My best friend lived just off Milnrow before she died I miss her terribly, when I see that farm it makes me think how happy we used to be when we drove towards it knowing we would see her soon.

Anyway, as you were.

AnyFucker · 02/03/2018 17:33

Aww, Staples. 😔

PaperRockMissile · 02/03/2018 17:37

Slightly off point but how do they actually close a motorway? I mean what is the process?

Do they start at the junction 1 slip road and close it off and then move u to junction 2? Or is it more team A does junctions 1 - 10 and team B does junctions 11 - 20?

What do they do with people already on the motorway? Do they heard them off half way down? Or if you have started, do you get to finish?

Who does the closing? Is it the police? Or Highways Agency?

CuriousaboutSamphire · 02/03/2018 17:44

Seems to be a serious lack of critical thinking these days. Yes, you are right! I had heard about a motorway accident M60 something. I was worried, I have family up there.

As I said, a friend I consider to be sane and sensible, posted the footage, I didn't really look, it was horrible enough with just a passing glance. It didn't strike me as unusual until I went looking for it again. Then the blindingly obvious hit

AllTheUserNamesAreTaken · 02/03/2018 17:51

PNGirl I grew up in the Colne Valley too. Now living the other side of the Pennines but family are still there

I wonder what the A62 route is like, from Marsden over to Uppermill and then to Ashton

BarbarianMum · 02/03/2018 17:55

Given the weather we've had here since Wednesday I can quite see why it's closed. Can't imagine why anyone would try to use it during an amber weather warning though.

PNGirl · 02/03/2018 18:07

I think it's open up there, but slow. Mum and dad haven't left Linthwaite since Monday!

Cookie79 · 02/03/2018 18:08

I can see Rakewood viaduct from my house. A58 as well as far as the White House (that road closed earlier this afternoon too). The winds have been brutal, really brutal and measured 93mph last night up there. We’ve so many bits from nearby trees in our garden I’ve been reluctant to let DD play in the garden to be honest. I feel very lucky to have such a wide and amazing view from the back bedroom. But then you see all the various coloured lights on the highways and motorways and know something is very wrong and people you know may be caught in it.

It’s a very busy stretch of motorway but at the same time so desolate and open up there. I used to feel so happy passing that farmhouse on the way back from places as a kid as it was a signal we were nearly home.

It’s been utterly amazing seeing how all the locals just pulled together and sorted stuff out.

Still a few people moaning online that their bin wasn’t collected though.... sigh.....

StaplesCorner · 02/03/2018 18:17

Well I just sat and watched BBC news and they were leading on the M62 it is impassable. So, we have it from the BBC.

BikeRunSki · 02/03/2018 18:22

The Huddersfield Examiber website runs the story about the M62 Farm pretty much every time there’s a slow news day.

Finnyhaddock · 02/03/2018 18:27

All the User Names - I can’t actually see live news as we have no signal but A62 towards Huddy is completely blocked with loads of lorries. Some people were stuck overnight.

PumpkinPie2016 · 02/03/2018 18:28

My dad drives a HGV and he was up there last night - was very snowy and very, very windy - all the HGV's were struggling. An accident then occured (cars I think), so he then sat going nowhere for 6 hours!

Then was told by police it was too dangerous to go down the hill due to wind and snow so all cars and wagons were sent back towards huddersfield.

He ended up getting to some services at 3.30am this morning - almost 24 hours after leaving the depot (there were two drivers in the wagon, hence the long day as they could swap over so their hours lasted).

They were there at the services until midday when they could move again on their tacographs but still couldn't go down the M62 - it really was awful up there he said there were so many wagons at the services that they were parked up down the slip roads!

All that was caused literally because of the very high winds and drifting snow!

isseywithcats · 02/03/2018 18:42

having travelled that section of the m62 on a motorbike in november and thinking we were going to be blown off at the highest point (live in halifax) i can understand why they have shut that section, even in summer its windy up there as it is the highest section of a motorway in the penines

Niceandwarmandhot · 02/03/2018 18:44

Cookie - most of our bins here were collected by the wind last night!!

Blaablaablaa · 02/03/2018 18:52

It's a combination of snow drifts , 90 mile an hour winds and severe congestion on the arterial roads around saddleworth. Many of the roads leading off the m62 are either blocked by cars and HGVs or 5ft + snow drifts.
Places like Delph are often used as a cut through when there are issues in the m62 but it's been pretty much inaccessible since Wednesday. Police are currently stopping people driving through Delph as so many people are ignoring the road closures.

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