M4 open again after Brynglas Tunnels crash (From South Wales Argus)
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M4 open again after Brynglas Tunnels crash
Updated 2:01pm Friday 15th March 2013 in News
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- One person dead in Brynglas crash
- M4 now open after Brynglas tunnel crash
- Five mile queues on M4
- Investigation ongoing and debris being removed from road
11:01am
Gwent Police are appealing for drivers who stopped near this morning'ss crash scene to come forward.
CCTV shows a number of motorists stopping at the side of the vehicle immediately after the collision, officers are particularly interested in speaking to these people. They include heavy goods vehicle drivers, and one man who actually got out of the passenger side of a passing vehicle and walked over to have a look inside.
Witnesses are asked to contact Gwent Police’s Collision Investigation Unit on 01633 642404.
9:59am
Anyone who may have witnessed the collision is asked to contact Gwent Police by dialling 101.
9:44am
THE person killed in this morning's crash was a 67-year-old man from the Cardiff area, Gwent Police have said.
They confirmed the collision involved one vehicle, a Peugeot 308 saloon, which collided with a wall and also an electrical sub-station.
The driver was recovered from the vehicle but was pronounced dead at the scene.
Anyone who may have witnessed the collision is asked to contact Gwent Police by dialling 101.
9:30am
All lanes have now re-opened, but trafffic is still delayed.
8:34am
Police confirm one person dead
8:32am
Camera view showing M4 eastbound between J26 and 25A
8:32am
8:30am
Police confirm one person was killed in this morning's Brynglas Tunnels accident.
8:28am
Stop-start traffic and traffic heavier than normal on A48 Southern Distributor Road Eastbound
8:11am
Traffic heavier than normal on A48 SDR eastbound between M4 J28 at Tredegar Park and M4 J24 at the Coldra due to the diversion.
8:09am
There is no estimated time for the road to re-open.
8:09am
Accident investigation work has been completed and the carriageway remains closed while the car is recovered and a large amount of debris is removed from the carriageway.
8:06am
Diversion: Via the A48 Southern Distributor road, to rejoin the Eastbound M4 at J24
8:04am
The closure follows a single-vehicle accident in the Brynglas tunnels at about 3am this morning.
Comments(16)
mocyoung
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12:20pm Fri 15 Mar 13
KarmaSuitsYa
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12:25pm Fri 15 Mar 13
Come on Argus, take up the fight here. You report these accidents on a near daily basis. how about something a bit more pro-active huh? A road safety campaign with hard hitting pictures, interviews with emergency services, hospital staff, bereaved family and the like. Whatever you want, just do something, anything.
To the Police - where are you? I drove to Bristol yesterday afternoon for a meeting, and I noticed police vehicles on a number of slip roads on both sides of the M4. I also noticed a marked improvement in the standard of driving around me on my journey. Excellent! More of that please! If these morons can't police themselves, that's what we pay you for. I understand your resources are stretched, so PRIORITISE YOUR WORKLOAD. Stop ploughing resources into fighting cannabis, which you and I both know nobody really gives a stuff about except you, and get more Constables out there policing the roads, where people are dying. It's entirely within your power to prevent a lot of these tragedies, and in my (ok, not so) humble opinion, you're displaying an almost criminal negligence in not doing so.
To everyone else out there. This is on all of us. The level of incompetence and downright recklessness I see displayed on the roads every day is appalling. Quite frankly, many of you need a **** good kicking. See how you like such flagrant disregard for the safety and wellbeing of others.
There's 65 miilion people out there driving 35 million vehicles, with 3 million more foreign vehicles a year contributing to the chaos, and not a lot of crumbling road to do it on - doesn't take a genius to figure out that that's a DANGEROUS ENVIRONMENT, and not to be treated like a day out at the feckin Topgear racetrack. I mean, for god's sake, just keep a safe distance from the vehicle in front. That's pretty much all you have to do. 99.9% of all accidents could probably be avoided if all you idiots out there who fail this simple task, and tailgate like an enema of bad LSD, ready, willing and able to seriously **** somebody up, if all of you would just meet in a Tesco carpark somewhere, when it's empty, and smash and kill each other to your stupid, pig ignorant little heart's content, that'd be great. I mean, I don't do facebook but can someone set up a page for these morons please? Maybe we can thin the herd a little? Every little helps.
Oh, one last point I'd like to make that occurred to me whilst I was mid-rant. Employers, rush hour traffic is when the nightmare is at it's worst. How about some more flexi-time or staggered shifts, or home working out there? See if we can't ALL pull together on this huh?
Cwmsteve
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12:43pm Fri 15 Mar 13
With regards to the other 2 comments, think they are a tad inappropriate at this difficult time. I would say 67 was hardly elderly, also in this day and age there are a whole number of reasons why this person is out driving at this time of day. Regarding the rant comment, i think its a little over the top. Again there could be a number of reasons why or how this unfortunate accident happened.
Newport87
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1:28pm Fri 15 Mar 13
Cwmsteve wrote:Agree, condolences to the families.
My comment is the same as the 1st, my thoughts go out to this mans family at this sad time!! With regards to the other 2 comments, think they are a tad inappropriate at this difficult time. I would say 67 was hardly elderly, also in this day and age there are a whole number of reasons why this person is out driving at this time of day. Regarding the rant comment, i think its a little over the top. Again there could be a number of reasons why or how this unfortunate accident happened.
There could be any reason why this man was driving at 3am (it's not illegal is it??) and accidents do happen unfortunately.
The Argus should look at the comments placed on here.
Magor
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1:36pm Fri 15 Mar 13
mocyoung wrote:Perhaps he was going to work,many people cant afford to retire these days.
What was so important that it necessitated an elderly man driving at 3am in the morning on a notoriously dangerous stretch of road?
papa
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2:06pm Fri 15 Mar 13
Condolences to the family because this is what should be said here.
Dragons fan
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3:25pm Fri 15 Mar 13
Grüngemüse
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4:09pm Fri 15 Mar 13
Now here's a seldom aired thought about possible causes of single vehicle crashes
SPEED BUMPS. Yes those suspension smashing, tyre shredding devices claiming to be "for safety".
Garages will tell anyone who cares to ask that replacing broken suspension springs is at epidemic proportions.
To appease the emergency services and others the original "sleeping policeman" speed bumps were replaced with "cushions". These allow the emergency services, buses and "white van-man on the phone" to ignore the speed bump.
The collateral damage to cars from these is either broken suspension springs if they are taken asymmetrically, or shredded tyre walls if taken symmetrically.
If The Argus is interested I have a photo of a tyre taken off the front of my car. The tread is legal but an inch or two up the inside wall the tyre has worn through 2 layers of canvas.
This was a disaster waiting to happen, like the one this unfortunate driver encountered.
This wear can only have been caused by the cushion type speed bumps. A situation aggravated by the fact that many of these are breaking up on the side slopes.
Dolieboy
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7:22am Sat 16 Mar 13
Grüngemüse wrote:As far as I know there are no speed bumps on the motorways
As above, condolences to the family of the deceased.
Now here's a seldom aired thought about possible causes of single vehicle crashes
SPEED BUMPS. Yes those suspension smashing, tyre shredding devices claiming to be "for safety".
Garages will tell anyone who cares to ask that replacing broken suspension springs is at epidemic proportions.
To appease the emergency services and others the original "sleeping policeman" speed bumps were replaced with "cushions". These allow the emergency services, buses and "white van-man on the phone" to ignore the speed bump.
The collateral damage to cars from these is either broken suspension springs if they are taken asymmetrically, or shredded tyre walls if taken symmetrically.
If The Argus is interested I have a photo of a tyre taken off the front of my car. The tread is legal but an inch or two up the inside wall the tyre has worn through 2 layers of canvas.
This was a disaster waiting to happen, like the one this unfortunate driver encountered.
This wear can only have been caused by the cushion type speed bumps. A situation aggravated by the fact that many of these are breaking up on the side slopes.
cat-03
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8:19am Sat 16 Mar 13
Has no actually taken note that police are looking for the people who got out of their cars and had a look. Doesnt
cat-03
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8:20am Sat 16 Mar 13
Has no one actually taken note that police are looking for the people who got out of their cars and had a look. Doesn't any one find thay odd?
NakedDancer
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3:25pm Sat 16 Mar 13
Strider
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9:53pm Sun 17 Mar 13
cat-03 wrote:I agree Cat, as the Police are appealing for them to come forward it seems that none of them phoned the police..
Condolences to the family.
Has no one actually taken note that police are looking for the people who got out of their cars and had a look. Doesn't any one find thay odd?
Not one of these people waited with him till help arrived
Aquarius
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1:24pm Mon 18 Mar 13
Strider wrote:This was the aspect that shocked me the most. Motorists who stopped, apparently looked in and then drove on. We don't know if they called the emergency services or what. They just drove on.
cat-03 wrote:I agree Cat, as the Police are appealing for them to come forward it seems that none of them phoned the police..
Condolences to the family.
Has no one actually taken note that police are looking for the people who got out of their cars and had a look. Doesn't any one find thay odd?
Not one of these people waited with him till help arrived
There's plenty of CCTV around there. I hope that all these 'motorists' are identified by the police and charged with whatever offences may be applicable. Don't wait for them to 'come forward'....go and GET them!
Radio Wales
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12:43pm Sat 23 Mar 13
I'm sick of seeing, day after day, reports of M4 closed - traffic jams on the SDR when the problem should have been erased years ago. Inquiries and talks that just go on and on, achieve nothing beyond consuming the money that should have been spent on a new road.
The relief road plans are already obsolete and we need to start over from scratch which means yet more wasted years - and lives.
In case people haven't noticed, this island is filling up to the brim, nearly everybody drives or needs stuff that comes by road, so it's time we stopped pussyfooting around and either reduce the population levels or increase the road capacity to cope, it's far more valuable to us than foreign aid or wars.
One last thing, I like to drive in the middle of the night too, because I positively hate the non-stop traffic wars that are ongoing on our roads daily.
weelass says...
9:39am Fri 15 Mar 13