Crime & Safety
A34 drivers frustrated at serious traffic delays near Oxford
In the morning, there was more than four miles of almost standstill traffic northbound at the Milton Interchange near Didcot.
A van had crashed into the back of an black MG family car and when police shut the outside lane, motorists were backed up all the way to East Ilsley.
National Highways’ spokesman said delays lasted more than 75 minutes for motorists stuck in the worst of it.
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The crash also caused huge traffic for drivers approaching the interchange from Milton, Didcot and Steventon.
In the early afternoon, drivers were left frustrated with delays of up to an hour southbound between the Peartree and Botley interchanges.
A lorry had shed its load which resulted in a “very large” amount of rocks and gravel to be covered across lane one, National Highways said.
The clean up was completed some two hours later.