The Cat Posted 26 March, 2015 Share Posted 26 March, 2015 Caused by this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-32063811 Just tried to take my son to his football training, it took 30 minutes to go less than a mile. Gave up and went back home. Pretty much the whole of Southampton is stuffed by all accounts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toadhall Saint Posted 26 March, 2015 Share Posted 26 March, 2015 Caused by this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-32063811 Just tried to take my son to his football training, it took 30 minutes to go less than a mile. Gave up and went back home. Pretty much the whole of Southampton is stuffed by all accounts. Yep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plastic Posted 26 March, 2015 Share Posted 26 March, 2015 Got home from Newbury to Fair Oak in under an hour thanks to morestead / owslebury! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doddisalegend Posted 26 March, 2015 Share Posted 26 March, 2015 Traffic pretty solid from Hockley link all the way to Fair Oak this afternoon as everyone poured of the M3 to cut across country took me twice as long normal to get home:x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonnyboy Posted 26 March, 2015 Share Posted 26 March, 2015 Friend was stuck on the m27 most of the day. The number of accidents on that stretch is ridiculous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattio Posted 26 March, 2015 Share Posted 26 March, 2015 Luckily I use the Waze app so I avoided all of this, condolences to the family of the chap who was killed and also unlucky to those stuck on the motorway for 6 hours! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridge too far Posted 26 March, 2015 Share Posted 26 March, 2015 Friend was stuck on the m27 most of the day. The number of accidents on that stretch is ridiculous. I used to use that stretch to go to work and, at this time of the year, the sun caused all sorts of problems (both going eastwards to work and westwards coming home) Don't know if the glare was bad this morning when this happened. Dreadful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Cat Posted 26 March, 2015 Author Share Posted 26 March, 2015 Took my friend 3.5 hours to go 3 miles from Sholing to Hedge End. At least she got home unlike the poor sod who died in the crash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotty Posted 26 March, 2015 Share Posted 26 March, 2015 I used to use that stretch to go to work and, at this time of the year, the sun caused all sorts of problems (both going eastwards to work and westwards coming home) Don't know if the glare was bad this morning when this happened. Dreadful I got caught up in this nightmare this morning. Tried to get to hedge end and swanwick for a couple of jobs, gave up after a solid hour of gridlock in every direction. When I went to collect my mrs from work this evening from the south hants, it was still bad. And yes, the glare was dreadful, I'm sure it must have an effect on accident levels. I was driving blind at times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Bateman Posted 26 March, 2015 Share Posted 26 March, 2015 I used to use that stretch to go to work and, at this time of the year, the sun caused all sorts of problems (both going eastwards to work and westwards coming home) Don't know if the glare was bad this morning when this happened. Dreadful Exactly this! I did that stretch from 1993-1995 when I had to go down to the office in Cosham daily, the sun was horrendous both ways, made even worse by the rain. Hideous bit of motorway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smirking_Saint Posted 26 March, 2015 Share Posted 26 March, 2015 Well, everyone stuck still had a better day than the friends and family of the poor deceased motorist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warsash saint Posted 26 March, 2015 Share Posted 26 March, 2015 Over 4 hours back from Bournemouth .... gave up with car at Hedge End & walked home to Warsash in the end !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PompeyLass Posted 27 March, 2015 Share Posted 27 March, 2015 [h=3]BlueTorWell-Known Member[/h]Messages:6,465 Whilst my thoughts are with the person who died in the M27 accident yesterday and their family I can't help but be angered by the management of the resulting traffic chaos that occured after the event. I left work in Eastleigh at 5pm yesterday, it took me an hour to get to Botley to collect my wages and then a further 5 hours to get to Sainsbury's at Hedge End and then onto my home a mile away from there, resulting in me stepping through my front door at 11pm ! I had no choice but to get to Botley as I needed my money to get petrol as I was already playing petrol roulette with my car. People really do need to be a tad more considerate whilst driving and not drive bumper to bumper in gridlocked traffic and certainly not block junctions on roundabouts, plenty of coffee and sugar is in order today !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro Posted 27 March, 2015 Share Posted 27 March, 2015 There was no traffic management or police in sight, the A27 is always snarled up eastbound at Swanwick and if those lights were managed during a diversion I think the flow would improve. Impossible for us to carry out our work and let a few people down but as someone has already said, one person did not get home and their family life has changed forever. RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Cat Posted 27 March, 2015 Author Share Posted 27 March, 2015 The police did manage the A27 at the Navigator later on, not sure what time they started but they were definitely there. Can't understand why more people didn't just park up and get a train or walk home. Obviously this isn't achievable for everyone but a good few people I've spoken to today said they wished they had done that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simo Posted 27 March, 2015 Share Posted 27 March, 2015 Thoughts go out to all the family's but the highways agency handled it very poorly imo ! Took me 4.5 hours to get home from pompey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lloydie Posted 27 March, 2015 Share Posted 27 March, 2015 The police did manage the A27 at the Navigator later on, not sure what time they started but they were definitely there. Can't understand why more people didn't just park up and get a train or walk home. Obviously this isn't achievable for everyone but a good few people I've spoken to today said they wished they had done that. That's what I did, thought it was unreasonably busy going onto the northam from town, realised I had 20 minutes till the next train and got on that. saved loads of time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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